Tours
Friday, July 11 Morning tours
*Please note the following tours have been cancelled: Tour C - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and Tour E - Architecture of Culture and Commerce
Tour A - Jane Addams Hull-House
Walking Tour starting at Hull House, 850 S. Halsted
Tour Leader: Lisa Lee, Director
Length of Tour: 2 hours
Tour Capacity: 40 guestsx
Tour Cost: 20USD
For many years Jane Addams was arguably America’s most famous woman and Hull-House undoubtedly its most important settlement house. From occupational safety to juvenile justice, practical nursing, the social science survey and world peace, Hull-House blazed a trail of progressive reform. Director Lisa Lee has made the old Hull mansion used by Addams into a vibrant place of discovery and exchange of ideas.
Tour B - Millennium Park
Walking Tour starting at Millennium Park
Tour Leader: Ed Uhlir
Length of Tour: 1.5 hours
Tour Capacity: 40 guests
Tour Cost: 20USD
This tour will consist of a visit to the City Design Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Participants will explore the operation of this joint program which is a joint venture of the College of the Architecture and the Arts and the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Tour D - Public Housing Museum
Walking tour starting at UIC
Tour Leader: Brad Hunt, Roosevelt University and Sunny Fischer, Driehaus Foundation
Tour Capacity: 20
Length of Tour: 2 hours
Tour Cost: $30 USD
The Public Housing Museum is a new organization devoted to the study of public housing and affordable housing worldwide. The plan is for it to use the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Houses, one of the pioneer housing projects of the 1930s. There will be a tour of the building and a discussion of the goals and challenges facing the museum. Conference attendees with knowledge of public housing around the US and elsewhere in the world are particularly encouraged to participate on this tour.
Tour F - Chicago Old and New SOLD OUT
Walking tour starting at CAF
Tour Leader: Conducted by Chicago Architecture Foundation
Tour Capacity; 20
Length of Tour: 2 hours
Tour Cost: $20
This tour introduces architecture and public art from 1871 to the present and looks at how buildings fit into the context of the city. It focuses on five street intersections: Michigan and Adams, Dearborn and Adams, Clark and Randolph, State and Randolph and Michigan and Randolph. Among the class Chicago sites are the Marquette Building, Federal Center, Daley Center, Thompson Center. It concludes with a visit to Millennium Park.
Tour P - Legacy of the Chicago Plan SOLD OUT
Bus tour starting at Marriott
Tour Leader: Dennis McClendon
Length of Tour: 3 hours
Tour Capacity: 30 guests
Tour Cost: 30 USD
Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's 1909 vision for the city is still revered but the plan's actual results are often misunderstood or forgotten. This bus tour of the central city will look at the Plan's physical legacies: Navy Pier, North Michigan Avenue, Northerly Island, a straightened river, Ogden Avenue, Congress Parkway, Union Station, Wacker Drive. We'll look at projects that greatly benefitted the city, at proposals that later generations reconsidered, and at heroic accomplishments that in the end meant little.
Friday, July 11 afternoon tours
*Please note the following tours have been cancelled: Tour G - Architecture of Culture and Commerce
Tour H - Chicago Old and New
Walking tour starting at CAF
Tour Leader: Conducted by Chicago Architecture Foundation
Tour Capacity; 20
Length of Tour: 2 hours
Tour Cost: $20
This tour introduces architecture and public art from 1871 to the present and looks at how buildings fit into the context of the city. It focuses on five street intersections: Michigan and Adams, Dearborn and Adams, Clark and Randolph, State and Randolph and Michigan and Randolph. Among the class Chicago sites are the Marquette Building, Federal Center, Daley Center, Thompson Center. It concludes with a visit to Millennium Park.
Sunday Afternoon Tours
*Please note the following tours have been cancelled: Tour I - Chicago’s North Shore, Tour J - Chicago Parks and Tour M - Lawndale and Historic Heritage
Tour K - Hyde Park Urban Renewal
Bus tour starting at Marriott
Tour Leader: Ruth Knack
Length of Tour: 3 hours
Tour Capacity: 30 guests
Tour Cost: 30 USD
This tour will focus on Hyde Park, the mid-19th century suburb that became the site of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the University of Chicago. It will include a close look at the large urban renewal called Hyde Park A & B which was implemented by real estate developer William Zeckendorf to designs by architects I. M. Pei and Harry Weese. The tour will conclude with a quick visit to the University of Chicago.
Tour L - Legacy of the Chicago Plan
Bus tour starting at Marriott
Tour Leader: Dennis McClendon
Length of Tour: 3 hours
Tour Capacity: 30 guests
Tour Cost: 30 USD
Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's 1909 vision for the city is still revered but the plan's actual results are often misunderstood or forgotten. This bus tour of the central city will look at the Plan's physical legacies: Navy Pier, North Michigan Avenue, Northerly Island, a straightened river, Ogden Avenue, Congress Parkway, Union Station, Wacker Drive. We'll look at projects that greatly benefitted the city, at proposals that later generations reconsidered, and at heroic accomplishments that in the end meant little.
Tour N - Transformations in Public Housing
Bus tour starting at Marriott
Tour Leader: Brad Hunt and Roberta Feldman
Length of Tour: 3 hours
Tour Capacity: 30 guests
Tour Cost: 30 USD
This tour would examine the massive Plan for Transformation of the Chicago Housing Authority. It would examine what has happened on the South Side at the site of the infamous Roberta Taylor Homes which have been demolished and at the Raymond Hilliard Homes which are being renovated, on the West Side at the ABLA homes and on the North Side at the Cabrini-Green site. The success of failure of this high stakes experiment in trying to revive public housing will have a major impact on the future of housing policy across the country. Come and see what has been happening to date.
Tour O - Riverside and the West Suburbs
Bus tour starting at Marriott
Tour Leader: Ann Keating and Joe Bigott
Length of Tour: 3 hours
Tour Capacity: 30 guests
Tour Cost: 30 USD
This tour would look at suburbs from the mid-19th century to today, moving from Frederick Law Omsted’s picturesque railroad suburb Riverside through the automobile suburbs of the 1920s to the booming city/suburb or Naperville/Aurora which has become one of the large business and employment centers in the Chicago metropolitan Area.