Chicago Cultural Center - a National Treasure

(If you prefer another day or time, please contact me with your availability. I will do the best to accommodate your schedule.)

What do the Great Chicago Fire and Queen Victoria have to do with the Chicago Cultural center? Everything. Take my tour and find out.

I will take you through more than 120 years of Chicago history and explain why the Chicago Cultural Center - our former Public Library was designated a Chicago Landmark and placed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

You will see the world's 2 largest Louis Comfort Tiffany glass domes, and the elegance of the newly restored Grand Army of the Republic Hall. We will stroll through the former reference, periodicals, and circulation rooms now used as art galleries and event venues.

You will read inspirational quotes by such notables as John Milton, Francis Bacon, and Victor Hugo among others and inspiring statements in Chinese, Egyptian, Hebrew, Persian, Greek Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, and German all created in breathtaking mosaics.

You'll be introduced to the resident ghosts, how the building played a role in a Hollywood movie, and learn how this treasure just missed the wrecking ball.  Come for the tour; stay until the end for a surprise. 

NOTE: On rare occasions a room may be in use for a private event and unavailable to view.