Chicago: Tours with your IAPSP Colleagues
Join your IAPSP Colleagues and Friends in a group tour arranged for you!
Tour #1: Chicago Architecture River Cruise (with bonus CAC Admission)
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 3:15pm – 6:00pm
Chicago’s architecture is known worldwide – and there’s nothing like seeing it from all three branches of the Chicago River. From hidden architectural treasures to the city’s most famous landmarks, expert guides will tell you how Chicago’s buildings, architecture and engineering made the city famous. From the Palmer Hotel, it is a 15 minute hotel walk to the Michigan Avenue area to meet your boat for a 90 minute cruise. Led by an expert guide who will share an insider’s glimpse into the buildings, architecture, and engineering that made Chicago famous as the birthplace of the skyscraper and home of modern American architecture. Nothing is more impressive than this world-renowned architecture as seen from the Chicago River on an architecture tour!
Includes admission* to the CAC (Chicago Architectural Center) a 10,000 square foot museum with exhibits about its diverse neighborhoods, housing types, leading architects and up-and-coming projects. View the largest 3D model of Chicago with more than 4,200 buildings and cinematic elements that tell amazing stories from history. Touch screens allow visitors to interact with the model and orient themselves to the city. Upstairs, explore a gallery that celebrates the international influence of skyscrapers.
*Admission to the CAC can be used within 7 days of the cruise.
Fee per person: $60
Registration is done via the conference webpage or by emailing: iapspconference@gmail.com
Tour #2: Gangster and Ghost Tour Friday, October 20
Walking Tour, leave hotel at 7:45pm
Take a 2-hour, 1.5-mile walking guided tour that explores the gangsters and ghosts of Chicago’s past in the area of “The Loop.” Known as the vice district during the 1920s and 30s shady partying, deal-making, and threats, riddled with speakeasy saloons, secret underground tunnels used by bootleggers, and the famous Al Capone, The Loop is where the understanding and depiction of the 20th century gangster began. Notable tour stops include: Congress Hotel, Death Alley, Palmer House.
Fee per person: $46
Registration is done via the conference webpage or by emailing: iapspconference@gmail.com
Tour #3: Art Institute of Chicago
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 Leave Palmer House at 1:00pm
Founded in 1879 and only a 10 minute walk from the Palmer, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s major museums. It houses an extraordinary collection of objects from across places, cultures, and time. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat‘s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso‘s The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper‘s Nighthawks, and Grant Wood‘s American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.
Fee per person: $32
Registration is done via the conference webpage or by emailing: iapspconference@gmail.com
Other Resources:
Choose Chicago: Official Tourism Site of Chicago, IL
Family Destinations Guides: Family friendly activities
