What You Will Do
We are Chicago's first and best Devil in the White City tour, offering the history, legends and lore surrounding H.H.Holmes, the World's Fair and Victorian Chicago. We visit Prairie Avenue, Chicago's Victorian "Easy Street" and site of the Fort Dearborn Massacre, travel to the World's Fairgrounds and the Midway Plaisance at the University of Chicago, and make the notorious trek to the site of Holmes' "Murder Castle."
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Itinerary
Meeting Point
The tour meets in the Congress Lounge bar at the Congress Plaza Hotel. The bus departs from the front of the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue. Please be there early, the bus has to leave promptly to be able to reach every destination. We cannot guarantee participation for late arrivals.
1
Prairie Avenue Historic District
30 minutes
Historic Victorian district and site of Fort Dearborn Massacre
2
United States Postal Service
25 minutes
The site of the former Murder Castle, workers at this unassuming post office have gotten more than they bargained for with the spirits of H.H. Holmes' restless victims.
3
Jackson Park's Japanese Garden
15 minutes
Perfect spot for pictures as you learn the ghost stories of Jackson Park and the 1893 World's Fair
4
Jackson Park
30 minutes
The former World's Fairgrounds of 1893
5
Union Stockyard Gate
10 minutes
A consequential place of late Nineteenth Century history, discover the historic place where Upton Sinclair based his groundbreaking work, "The Jungle".
6
Museum of Science and Industry
15 minutes
Hear the ghost stories of the last remaining building from the 1893 World's Fair
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