Loop as Lab: the Walking Tour

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.

Duration: 1.5 Hours
Price: $30 Public
Free for Members
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.

Notes

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.