The Boystown Tour starts a week from Saturday. Eek! I’m so thankful. I’m really meant to give tours. I gave a tour today after a few months of no tours and it all came back to me. It’s time and the Boystown Tours are just about ready! Time to go.
I wanted to take some time [...]
Although I wrote and gave the Second City/Old Town Tour last year and also wrote and gave the Pedway Tour this winter, this Boystown Tour is my first real Chicago Elevated Tour. I have no one else’s tour to jive off of and I’m not talking about buildings that have been on tours since the [...]
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One of my favorite things in the world is when a touree tells me he has never been to Chicago. It’s like a blank slate, an empty canvas for me to draw and paint on.
What’s even more fun, is to give a tour to someone who has never been to Chicago [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I have to offer, what makes me different. What it is that I can give to Chicagoans and tourists that is different and new. Certainly I thought about this when I started the company and I had a pretty good idea then, but it takes a few months [...]
When I decided to start my own tour company, I knew I wanted to do something different.
But the time and place of my decision to strike out on my own required that I flex a winter muscle. I needed a tour that could start in January and get me through to big tour time in [...]
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