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Support this humorous and poignant take on corruption in our dear state, Jan. 24 at Columbia College. Filmmakers in attendance! via Media Burn Independent Video Archive
Newly updated doc pokes fun at political corruption in IL. Special guests: Mike Flannery, Phil Ponce, Delmarie Cobb, and Tim Kazurinksy.
Ok, so it isn't history and it isn't architecture BUT it's an awesome excuse to go downtown... The Magic Parlour offers a mind-blowing magic performance via Goodman Theatre Thu-Sun all winter long. .
Third-Generation Magician, Mentalist & Entertainer Dennis Watkins creates unforgettable corporate entertainment for events nationwide.
See what ChatGPT thinks for your travel recommendations :)
Downtown signs of summer.
Been taking architecture students from Calgary’s SAIT Polytechnic university around Chicago since 2014! Such a pleasure.
A very rare chance for a free virtual event with us! Invite anyone to join from afar. We are offering this as we support a special community project with the . Invite anyone to join you from afar! Tue, Apt 25 6pm-7pm CT. Register here: bit.ly/day-at-the-1893.
You can join us for another free event Tuesday that explores the 1893 World’s Fair. This is our last fundraising push for Phase 1 of our project with the Design Museum of Chicago to make a free community tour. 6pm, this one is fun!
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See rare images on this live virtual event that is FREE "Innovations at the 1893 World's Fair" on Wed, 4/19 at 6pm CT. Register here and please share:
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Sunset in .
On our free "Badass Women of History" virtual event this evening, the group collectively wrote a haiku about pilot Bessie Coleman:
Brave inspiration
What was harder, french or flight
Life taken too soon
Last FREE opportunity to join will be this Fri, Mar 31 at 6pm CT. Please tell your friends!
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Monday, 3/27 or Friday, 3/31 at 6pm - a rare FREE opportunity to celebrate Women's History Month with us. Please invite more men to attend, this is not just for women. https://bit.ly/badass-women-virtual-event
We've been quiet....and now we have something big to share! This awesome new project will be FREE for the public. Thank you in advance. 🔥 🙏 🤗
We at Chicago Detours have partnered with the Design Museum of Chicago to launch an entirely new approach to experiential education and we need your help. We are going...
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Sunshine in January in Chicago! So monumental.
Sending gratitude to all of you ❤️
Chicago Detours was started by one woman, grew to a team of ten employees, and hosted more than 150,000 virtual and in-person guests. We thank the many peopl...
Want to come on a FREE virtual tour with us? As long as you have a CPL card, I can get you in for 6pm Thursday. Email [email protected].
Chicago is home to a thriving Polish community that has been an integral part of our city’s culture for generations. In celebration of Polish American History Month, join us for a spectacular virtual tour of Chicago's Polish Triangle! Explore historic Polish American stories of cultural, daily lif...
Chicago is so pretty at night! Taken from the for a special fundraising event…congrats to for 20 years of saving incredible Chicago stories recorded on various video formats over the decades. If you’ve ever come on one of our tours, you probably watched a video on an iPad on one of our walking tours, or on a screen on a bus tour - most of them were from Media Burn. If you haven’t ever checked out their incredible collection, do i5. There are so many videos that are tear-jerking, politically relevant, hilarious, deeply reflective and nostalgic. Take a break from YouTube and connect with the Chicago of the ‘90s and beyond with them!
Such a treat to be in the evening.
12 years ago Chicago Detours started as a tour company for curious people. At that point, Chicago tourism didn’t look much beyond downtown. We wanted to show people true and genuine stories of Chicago people, both famous in history books and beloved community and family members who have contributed to make this city great. We have sought to open awareness to design and ingenuity in architecture, art, engineering, and businesses across history. We want to promote appreciation of our neighborhoods, like with this incredibly cultivated yard at a home in Pilsen. I never cease to be amazed now how what some people saw as a “quirky” approach to tourism back in 2010 (but we saw as fundamental) has now become so much more sought after and mainstream. Thank you to our followers for 12 years of business. For helping us thrive in 2020 while our industry crumbled around us. For wanting to join us on this journey of learning from the buildings, spaces, and stories of Chicago in order to become responsible citizens of the world.
So pretty, and quiet at night!
Twinsies! When I see two buildings like this I wonder, was it parents living next door to a married child and their family? Two siblings? Or were there more of these on the block now gone? What if the neighbors despise each other? What if each thinks their taste in having updated the building is superior?
Looking down an .
This is pretty incredible that someone chose to build a shrine, sandwiched between two buildings.
Have you seen the restored dome at the Cultural Center? It’s always been in the shadows of the Tiffany dome and now we see it with its original clarity and color. It’s breathtaking to see!
Discover this Chicago artist from history with this very special event!
Tomorrow 3/26, join us for "Cosmo's Cosmos: 100 Years of Birth, Death, and Rebirth," taking place at and the . Explore the schedule:
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Happy first day of ! Finally monuments to all the people who have contributed to science, business, activism, education, sports, and the arts are getting their due recognition. Dedicated in 2021, this is the second public monumental sculpture celebrating a black woman in Chicago. Ida B. Wells was a persuasive and eloquent writer, a fearless activist against lynching, and a “woman who refused to adopt the ‘ladylike’ attitudes of compromise and silence.” (Source: Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby). This sculpture in is inspired by her idea that exposing the “light of truth” is the first step in finding “the way to right wrongs.”
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Near the big 78 development, just south of Dearborn (South Loop). Love the clickety-clack of the #freighttrain in #chicago and the #architecture.
Last chance for a #womenshistorymonth celebration. And it’s free and just an hour :)
May Day, celebrated as International Workers Day around the world, was inspired by events here in Chicago. So why don't we celebrate it here in the US?
Share this with someone who loves to stop and smell the flowers in our neighborhoods. Or with someone who should!
Ever had Iraqi pizza? #devon #chicagoneighborhoods #chicagofood #chicago #ilikechicago
Today’s mini-tour is back in downtown! Alex walks us from the gorgeous Carbide and Carbon to the dazzling Aqua and Vista towers before his first in-person tour for private groups in nearly a year. If you like it, consider support: Venmo @chicagodetours Zelle [email protected]
Marie and Alex discuss 4 awesome historic figures who aren’t in our “Badass Women of History” virtual event but whose stories we just had to share! If you enjoy, please support:�Zelle [email protected]�Venmo @chicagodetours
Talking about the everyday buildings we can find in numerous neighborhoods of Chicago. What do they say about the people who built them and the people who live in them now? Ending with the neighborhood’s ugliest building! #chicagotwoflats If you like these, please support: Venmo @chicagodetours Zelle [email protected]
Alex and Marie are discussing some of their favorite books about Black History in Chicago. If you enjoy, please support! Venmo @chicagodetours Zelle [email protected]
Very pleased to welcome the Executive Director of Preservation Chicago for a conversation about landmarking the Emmett Till House. If you like it, please support! Venmo: @chicagodetours Zelle: [email protected]
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