Chicago Detours announced the launch of its summer season of walking tours in downtown and the city’s vibrant neighborhoods, including Fulton Market in the West Loop. While year-round tours stay mostly indoors, these summertime tours start in mid-April and take advantage of both interior and exterior architecture and the stories behind buildings.  These fun and educational summer tours include the “Best Architecture Walking Tour for Design Lovers” with its chronological walk through Chicago’s architectural history downtown and the “Old Polonia and Wicker Park Food Tour” of changing communities in northwest neighborhoods. A few of the walking tours include:

“Factories to Calories Fulton Market Food Tour”
Fridays, 2:30pm and Saturdays, 12:30pm; beginning Apr. 19
Over the course of this two-hour excursion, guests will see hidden architectural details that indicate the neighborhood’s industrial roots. Guests will sample some of the culinary delights of Fulton Market, including a creative Italian sub within the historic interior of J.C. Graziano’s. Most of all, the tour uses the light food tastings so guests see Fulton Market’s meatpacking past among its gourmand present.

“Best Architecture Walking Tour for Design Lovers”
Wednesdays, 5:45pm and Fridays, 4:30pm; beginning Apr. 17
This creative tour for curious people connects architectural styles to other elements of design, art history, and popular culture. In an action-packed 90 minutes, this tour covers Chicago’s vast architectural history, from fur-trappers of early America to Mies van der Rohe’s modernism to Maggie Daley Park. This is not your grandma’s architecture tour!
 
For more information, visit www.chicagodetours.com

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