- Walking
- Essential
Loop as Lab: The Walking Tour
Experience Chicago’s urban planning history with a tour that reveals the city’s growth and the impact of visionary designs on the Loop’s landscape.
Chicago was a planned city from its very beginnings. Loop as Lab: the Walking Tour provides a street-level view of how city planning has shaped Chicago's growth from 1909 through to the downtown plan currently in development.
Meet
Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E. Wacker Dr.
What do the DuSable Bridge, Illinois Center, and Block 37 have in common? They all began as part of a city plan. The Loop as Lab tour walks you through six different city plans, showing the successes and failures, what resulted and what never came to be. What has city planning done for Chicago? Take this tour and decide for yourself.
Know before you go:
- Guests climb short flights of stairs during the tour.
- Tour route differs slightly between weekday and weekend departures due to weekend closures of sections of the Pedway.
Buildings on This Tour
Free Center Entry with Your Ticket
Ticket price includes entrance to the Chicago Architecture Center within 7 days of your walking or bus tour.