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Interested in exploring Chicago from the perspective of ghosts and gangsters? Experience a colorful side of Chicago history with this gangsters and ghosts tour. With a historian as your guide, you’ll step back to the Roaring Twenties, when the Chicago Loop was a hub for bootleggers, speakeasies, and ...

Join this tour of Chicago's food scene, and see what sets this friendly mid-western metropolis apart. Explore Chicago's buzzing food scene in a small group (or upgrade for a private experience) on this walking tour. Stroll around Downtown, learning how how important the immigrants that built this ...

Take a 3 hour gourmet dinner cruise on a high-end luxury yacht with the stunning skyline of Chicago as your backdrop. Climb aboard your recently renovated vessel, featuring a sumptuously-appointed rooftop lounge and stylish interior design, for your cruise along Lake Michigan. Then sit down for a 3 ...

End the year with a bang when the sky lights up at midnight! Make your evening in Chicago one to remember with this 3-hour cruise featuring dinner, sightseeing, and dancing along the shores of Lake Michigan. Feast your eyes on incredible views of iconic Windy City sights like Navy Pier, the Willis ...

Shop America's Shop & Spa (The Shops at North Bridge) tour package offers a massage from Spa Norstrom and a treat from Vosges Haut-Chocolat. You'll also receive great offers on shopping at more than 50 retailers, featuring the Visitor Rewards booklet with $500 in savings!

Chicago has a long history of organized crime and was famously home to the American mafia figure Al Capone. In 1850, Chicago had a population of 80,000 people, but the city had no police force. Because Chicago was built over a swamp, mud constantly oozed from beneath the city's wooden streets. It ...

The Chicago River cuts through downtown Chicago, veering skyward on either bank are the great edifices of American architecture, and at their feet some damn good food spots!

Looking to escape the anti-Chinese violence that had broken out on the west coast, the first Chinese arrived in Chicago after 1869 when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed. While not the largest Chinatown in the US, Chi-town's Chinatown is still a bustling century-old neighborhood ...

Chicago's obsession with coffee is well documented. As a result the city’'s specialist coffee hotspots constantly raise the bar as they innovate to gain a competitive edge, in Chicago, coffee is serious business. From farm to cup, every factor in the black art of the making the perfect coffee, how ...

Whether you're meeting friends, grabbing a slice on the go, or ordering in for a late night snack, pizza is one of the few things that will never let you down! Explore Chicago's storied Pizzerias, learn about the rich cultural history of pizza, and taste four of the best slices the city has to offer ...