Experiencing different pizza styles in Chicago’s West Loop

Taste Chicago’s best pizza styles on a West Loop guided tour, exploring top pizzerias while discovering the neighbourhood’s history and culture. What makes West Loop special 20 years ago, West Loop was a thoroughly unappealing, sleeves-rolled-up industrial area, dominated by meatpacking warehouses. Many of those…
Nathan G Moore House in Oak Park, Chicago.

The best way for architecture-lovers to see Oak Park, Chicago

Discover Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpieces on an Oak Park guided tour, with expert insight, historic homes and Prairie-style architecture. Why visit Oak Park? Out west, safely into suburbia, Oak Park in Chicago comes over as a leafy, well-to-do area of carefully primped lawns and sizable…
Kayaking along the Chicago River.

Chicago from down low: Kayaking the Chicago River

A kayak tour on the Chicago River brings a closeness to the water – and views of some of the most spectacular architecture on earth. Kayaking around Goose Island It’s not the Chicago I was expecting. The only company when kayaking along the Chicago River…
The Frank Lloyd-Wright Home and Studio in Chicago.

The best places in Chicago for Frank Lloyd-Wright architecture

For lovers of Frank Lloyd-Wright’s architecture, the best places in Chicago to visit are his Oak Park studio and Frederick C Robie House. Chicago’s most famous architect For a city so famous for its skyscrapers, it’s perhaps ironic that the single most celebrated Chicago architect…