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Author Ellen Shubart by Ellen Shubart, Class or 2006| Photographs by Richard W. Shubart Greece has been hardwired into many of us since we were… Read More

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 Photographs by Larry Ross More than two dozen docents attended an Enrichment Committee outing on August 18th visiting Chicago’s… Read More

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… Read More

 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,… Read More

Author Mary Jo Hoag by Mary Jo Hoag  Class of 2009 On some CAC tours we discuss the Underground Railroad. This “railroad” was a system… Read More

Looking north on Wabash from Van Buren, August 1906 by Steve Redfield, Class of 2019 CAC’s “Elevated Architecture: Downtown ‘L’ Train” tour gives guests a… Read More

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… Read More

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

Marcia Ross 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,”… Read More

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… Read More