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“WITHOUT QUESTION THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL TOUR AVAILABLE IN CHICAGO: WITTY, INFORMATIVE, ENGAGING.” CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

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The thriving river cities of St. Louis and Cincinnati each had at least a 20-year head start on Chicago. Places such as Milwaukee and even Kenosha were more naturally blessed. But it was here – on a swampy and malodorous scrap of land so unpromising the Potawatomi had hardly bothered to settle it – where the American story took root and grew to epic proportions. Marquette and Jolliet once had been forced to laboriously portage their canoes over this dank, mucky expanse at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, called “wild garlic” by locals and later referred to derisively as Mud Lake. But in the early 1800’s that was no obstacle for the indomitable spirit of newly-arrived Easterners who would carve canals, tunnel under the lake itself, and later hoist the foundations of the entire City, four to seven feet, just to keep their feet dry. Mud Lake soon became the vital link to the Mississippi and the Great Lakes, the heartland and the Atlantic, the past and future – with Chicago in the center. In a span of only six years – after the Great Fire – Chicago went from a city without one recognizable landmark to the center of world architecture. Its rise from a regional station to the busiest rail center on earth happened almost as quickly. Chicago took almost everyone by surprise, and it will take your breath away on one of our guided Historical or Architectural Cruises.

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Chicago Line’s Historical Lake + River Cruise

W Marquette & Jolliet, W Great Chicago Fire, W World’s Fair, 1933 1673 After exploring the I 1871 In one of the most Amid the Great Depression, Chicago portage Jolliet catastrophic events of the Chicago’s “Century of advised that a canal be 19th century, a third of the Progress” Exposition stood built linking the Mississippi population was made out on the Lakefront with and Lake Michigan – 175 homeless. The entire its bright colors, angular years before The & business district was wiped buildings, and modernistic Michigan Canal actually out with the exception of forms. Behind it, laid was constructed. the Water Tower (I) that the irony of a grey and still stands today. beaten city.

Port Chicago, 1856 X City of Big Ideas X Post-War Chicago, 1968 X Insured by members of No other city created so many Richard J. Daley, elected Chicago’s Board of Trade, revolutionary innovations: the mayor in 1955 and re-elected schooners loaded with grain modern packing plant, the five successive times, was set sail for Europe while national mail-order houses, the the central figure in Chicago’s lumber, iron, goods and refrigerator car. These ideas of post-war revival. Projects people arrived on the Philip Armour, Richard Sears, such as Marina Towers, ’s crowded Montgomery Ward, and George the “City-within-the-City,” wharves at a rate of 25 Pullman powered Chicago’s helped to reverse the vessels per hour. recovery from the Fire. exodus to the suburbs.

Columbian Exposition, 1893 Daniel Burnham’s challenge to American engineers was to outdo the landmark of the 1889 Paris Expo, the Eiffel Tower. In five month’s time, with his own money, George Washington Gale Ferris put Eiffel’s observatory on a pivot and set “The World’s Greatest Ride” in motion.

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Chicago Line’s Architectural River Cruise

, 1925  ,  Sears Tower, 1974 One of Chicago’s most 1968 Pupils of Mies For a quarter century, famous structures, this van der Rohe designed this this 1,454-foot structure 36-story ’s 70-story apartment tower was the tallest in the world. gothic design was the in homage to their master, The 4.4 million square foot result of a competition who in 1922 had proposed tower, with its special in which 286 entries were a similar 30-story nine-piece “bundle tube” submitted from around skyscraper with glittering vertical truss, was engineered the world. curvilinear walls for the by world-renowned city of Berlin. Dr. Fazlur Khan.

Merchandise Mart, 1930  330 N. Wabash, 1971  NBC Tower, 1989  At the time of its completion, The last major Modeled after New York’s this 25-story, 4,250,000 designed by Mies himself, this RCA building by Raymond square-foot structure was the 52-story structure was the Hood, NBC Tower’s flying largest building in the world. second largest of his career. buttresses, tall spire, and In 1945, a consortium headed Due to sensitive computer decorative crown were by Joseph Kennedy purchased equipment inside, a special designed to complement its the Mart for one-third of the wall treatment was developed close neighbor, the Tribune cost to build it. that combined double glazing Tower, also a Hood design. with a thermal break.

Ferris Wheel, , 1995 In recognition of Ferris’ engineering feat of 1893, this wheel towers 148 feet over the lakefront with a capacity for 240 people. The original (pictured page 4) was 250 feet tall and higher than the crown in the Statue of Liberty, with a capacity for 2,160 passengers.

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If you’re looking for a great story, this one is incomparable. Not only does a river run through it, the river runs backwards. This is the city that put up the first skyscraper - called “cloud busters” back then - and virtually redefined the 20th century urban landscape. Queen Victoria started the public library with a personal gift of 8,000 volumes. And here a man named Armour invented meat packing and distribution, not to mention the manufacturing process that Henry Ford would later copy and make famous as his “assembly line.” Along the way, Chicago also created the mail-order catalog and electrified the “Blues.” Chicago always beckoned the ambitious: fur trappers, land speculators, builders of industrial and merchant empires. “Make no little plans,” said Daniel Burnham. No matter which way you turn on the deck of our flagship Ft. Dearborn, or the classic Innisfree, yet another story looms up from the riverside – related in fascinating detail by our expert guide. First “settled” where the Michigan Avenue Bridge now spans the river, by a resourceful Haitian trader, Chicago is a tale that extends from nine-foot sea scorpions and woolly mastodons to buildings so high that, in the words of Carl Sandburg, “they had to put hinges on the top two stories to let the moon go by.”

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North Pier River East Art Center Christian A. Eckstorm This is the American saga writ large. Built 1905-1920

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Chicago Fire not only jumped a river, but cleared the way Tribune Tower Howells & Hood for architectural giants of masonry, glass and structural Built 1922-1925 steel such as Jenney, Root and Sullivan (Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor) – a tradition still at work, for example, in Frank Gehry’s pioneering Millennium Park pavilion. You’ll see how debris from that 1871 inferno, hastily plowed into Lake Michigan, formed the basis Bertrand Goldberg Associates of the landscape masterpiece that is Grant Park, where Built 1959-1964 Gehry’s vision took shape, and a 2,800-acre lakefront that today is the envy of cities around the world. And you’ll learn how our glorious lakefront was preserved during the turn of the century largely through the Riverbend Condominiums fanatical efforts of one man – a publicity-shy merchant by DeStefano & Partners the name of Montgomery Ward. Built 2000-2002 Ward waged a 25-year legal campaign against many of his fellow commercial barons who were intent on making the lakefront an industrial center. He fought Erie on the Park against colorful politicians with nicknames like “Hinky Lucien Lagrange Architects Dink” and “Bathhouse John.” Built 2001-2002 If you’re thinking that they should build a monument to Ward – actually they did. His is one of eight large busts that face the colossal (there’s no other River City word for it) . Built as a warehouse Bertrand Goldberg for Marshall Field, and once owned by the Kennedy family, Associates the fabled MM is one of the largest structures in the Built 1986 world.

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NBC Tower UBS Tower 191 North Skidmore, Owings Lohan Caprile & Wacker Drive & Merrill Goettsch Kohn Pedersen Fox & Associates Built 1985-1989 Built 1999-2001 Built 2000-2002

330 N. Wabash 225 West LaSalle-Wacker (formerly Wacker Drive Building IBM Building) Kohn Pedersen Fox Holabird & Root Office of & Associates Mies van der Rohe Built 1929-1930 Built 1985-1989 Built 1969-1971

Merchandise Chicago Title Leo Burnett Mart & Trust Center Building Graham, Anderson, Kohn Pedersen Fox Kevin Roche Probst & White & Associates John Dinkeloo & Associates Built 1923-1931 Built 1990-1993 Built 1987-1989

Kinzie Street Carbide and One Illinois Center Railroad Bridge Carbon Building Office of John B. Turner Burnham Brothers Mies van der Rohe

Built 1915 Built 1928-1929 Built 1967-1970

Boeing Two Prudential Swissôtel World Headquarters Plaza Harry Weese Perkins & Will Loebl, Schlossman & Associates & Hackl Built 1988-1990 Built 1986-1989 Built 1988-1990

311 South Civic Opera 77 West Wacker Wacker Drive Building Ricardo Bofill Kohn Pedersen Fox Graham, Anderson, Arquitectura & Associates Probst & White Built 1990-1992 Built 1988-1990 Built 1927-1929

AT&T 333 West Wacker Jewelers Corporate Center Drive Building Skidmore, Owings Kohn Pedersen Fox Thielbar & Fugard & Merrill & Associates Built 1924-1926 Built 1985-1989 Built 1979-1983 9

Lake Point Tower Schipporeit-Heinrich Associates Then, of course, there’s the tale of a down-on-his- Built 1965-1968 luck, 22-year old railroad freight agent in a sleepy little Minnesota town … who turned a wayward shipment of watches into a retail empire. A kid named Richard Sears.

Wrigley Building And while we’re on the subject of towering Graham, Anderson, Probst & White ambitions, consider these parallel stories.

Built 1919-1925 In the year 1835 a contemptuous young businessman from New York arrived in the “mud hole” that was Chicago to salvage a disastrous land-deal his brother-in-law had made. But when William Butler Ogden Trump Tower Chicago began short-selling what he considered worthless lots, he Skidmore, Owings & Merrill recovered the entire purchase price with only a third of the

Built 2005-present total property. Ogden stopped selling, started investing, changed his travel plans … and within two years became the city’s Fulton House first mayor. His astute financing launched McCormick’s (North American Cold Storage new reaper factory, the Union Pacific railway and scores of Warehouse) Frank Abbott other pioneering public and private enterprises.

Built 1908 Today the waterway that is home to Chicago Line Cruises - Ogden Slip - is named for this indispensable figure. Montgomery Ward Warehouse One hundred and seventy years later, another & Offices Willis J. McCauley New Yorker came to town for a real estate venture, but Built 1928-1929 this time with no misgivings. Along the Chicago River where Jolliet once portaged his canoe, Donald Trump is building a 96-story stainless steel-glass Tower that will 190 South stand as the city’s first 21st century landmark. LaSalle Street John Burgee Architects Come aboard this season. Enjoy some of our with Phillip Johnson fresh baked cookies, a cup of coffee… and 90 minutes of Built 1983-1987 an experience you won’t soon forget.

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Architectural Fireworks Cocktail Cruise Cruise

6pm (lake and river), 8pm (river) 8pm, 9:45pm Sip your favorite cocktail and drink in the magic as the In centuries past, English kings and invited nobles towering sunlit majesty of Chicago's gives way beheld spectacular displays of fireworks from royal barges. to the breathtaking, burnished hues of early evening. Now you can too. Come aboard for a phenomenal light Many people say it's the most beautiful time of day for show over Lake Michigan. Wednesdays at 8 pm and a cruise. Monday thru Saturday, May 22rd thru Sept 7th. Saturdays at 9:45 pm, May 23rd thru Sept 7th. Wednesday thru Saturday, Sept 7th thru Oct 3rd.

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From the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94) – Exit Ohio Street east. Go east on Ohio Street two blocks past Michigan Avenue and turn right (south) on Fairbanks Court. Proceed two blocks to Illinois Street and turn left (east). Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

From Michigan Avenue – Go east on Ohio Street two blocks and turn right (south) on Fairbanks Court. Proceed two blocks to Illinois Street and turn left (east). Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

From the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) – Stay in left lane to exit northbound Lake Shore Drive. Cross Chicago River bridge and exit right at Navy Pier/Grand Avenue/Illinois Street. At the bottom of the ramp, go straight (north) after first light. At the second light, go left (west) on Grand Avenue. Turn left (south) on McClurg Ct. and proceed one block to Illinois Street. Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

From northbound Lake Shore Drive – Exit right at the Navy Pier/Grand Avenue/Illinois Street. At the bottom of the ramp, go straight (north) after first light. At the second light, go left (west) on Grand Avenue. Turn left (south) on McClurg Ct. and proceed one block to Illinois Street. Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

From southbound Lake Shore Drive – Exit right on Grand Avenue and travel west to McClurg Court. Turn left (south) on McClurg and head one block to Illinois Street. Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

From Eisenhower/Congress Expressway (I-290) – Go east to Buckingham Fountain and turn left (north) on Columbus Drive. After crossing the Chicago River turn right (east) on Illinois Street. Go to 465 N. McClurg Court (just south of Illinois Street and McClurg) and walk east on the River East Art Center’s promenade to our Ticket Office.

Motorcoach Parking – Drop passengers at the intersection of McClurg Ct. and Illinois Street, then proceed to one of the following: a) Elston Avenue from Potomac to LeMoyne (this location is essentially between Division Street and North Avenue.), b) East side of Canal Street, south of Roosevelt Road, c) On Franklin Street, under Congress Parkway, or d) East side of Clybourn Avenue, north of Division Street. Or click here for a Chicago Motorcoach Parking Map and Information Guide.

Public Transportation – For CTA buses that go directly to River East Art Center at Illinois St. and McClurg Ct., call the CTA at (312) 836-7000 for specific directions from your location, or click here at www.transitchicago.com. For train schedules and details, click here at www.metrarail.com.

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Advance Ticket Purchases Recommended: 312-527-1977 Passage: $36.00 per Adult; $31.00 per Senior; $21.00 per Child (Ages 7-18)

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