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1-09 ★★★★★★ “Six of six stars, Architectural + by far the most comprehensive and engaging tour of the bunch.” Historical Cruises 2009 Time Out Chicago NORTH PIER DOCKS at RIVER EAST ART CENTER We invite you to learn more about Chicago’s past, present, and future at our Tour Partner’s newly redesigned Galleries at 1601 North Clark Street. www.chicagoline.com Purchase Tickets online at Purchase Tickets 2 Critics say that if you have only two hours in Chicago this is how to spend it: “WITHOUT QUESTION THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL TOUR AVAILABLE IN CHICAGO: WITTY, INFORMATIVE, ENGAGING.” CHICAGO SUN-TIMES www.chicagoline.com Click Here To Purchase Tickets 3 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. Click Here To Purchase Tickets www.chicagoline.com 4 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 Illinois & 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, Chicago River’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. Click Here To www.chicagoline.com Purchase Tickets 5 Chicago Line’s Architectural River Cruise Tribune Tower, 1925 Lake Point Tower, 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 skyscraper’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 Chicago building 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, Navy Pier, 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. Click Here To Purchase Tickets www.chicagoline.com 6 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.” (Continued on Page 7) Click Here To Purchase Tickets Discover the city of broad shoulders and vertical dreams. www.chicagoline.com 7 North Pier River East Art Center Christian A. Eckstorm This is the American saga writ large. Built 1905-1920 Sail with us and learn how the devastating 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, Marina City 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) Merchandise Mart. 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. (Continued on Page 9) Sears Tower Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Click Here To Built 1968-1974 Purchase Tickets www.chicagoline.com 8 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.

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