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Jim Bartholomew 2008 or Jim Javorcic 1999 River Cruise, July 2023 Jim was a fantastic tour guide. Learned so much from him and had a lovely cruise! Thank you, Jim!!!!…

 by Lisa Ciota, Docent Class of 2020, Education Guide “What is the city but its people?” is a question posed in Shakespeare’s 1608 tragedy, Coriolanus, about an ancient Roman general…

by Mary Jo Hoag  Class of 2009 On some CAC tours we discuss the Underground Railroad. This “railroad” was a system in place before the Civil War that helped escaping…

by Steve Redfield, Class of 2019 CAC’s “Elevated Architecture: Downtown ‘L’ Train” tour gives guests a unique opportunity to participate in Chicago’s transportation past, traveling around the Loop that opened…

By Lisa Ciota, Class of 2020, Education Guide First, a great big “THANK YOU” goes out to the Docent and Volunteer community for participating in the June 2023 Bridge User…

Swifties and Nascar and Lolla – oh my! A lot is going on in the streets of Chicago! I hope everyone has been enjoying tours on the streets and the…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 “In the 1980s, I’d taken a tour offered by the Archicenter, as CAC’s predecessor was then called,” Marcia explained.  “I immediately knew that this…

by Maurice Champagne, class of 2004 Photographs from the author Fort Dearborn Docents starting a tour from the CAC typically comment on Fort Dearborn.  Metal markers on the pavement at…

By Burt Michaels, class of 2019 Photographs by the author For the second time in as many months, I found myself at a place meant to honor the dead, guiltily…

Street Art All around Chicago, in its buildings, bridges and train stations, we can find art.  Whether it is a mural that was commissioned , or graffiti created without permission,…