i wish every city had a service like this. We were given the gift of one person for half a day who simply wanted to help us learn our way around Chicago so we could have a great time in this amazing city. We met our host, Sharon, at the Cultural Center, an amazing building that is a treasure to... More

Mr Dick Elkins showed us around the cultural center and the magnificent domes. He also showed us the loop area architecture and the importance of buildings. We saw Millenium park and then traveled over the river to the Water Tower. All in a wonderful three hour tour full of factual information and Dick's personal thoughts. A charming greeter for a... More

You sign up on line but don't get confirmation until about 2 days pre trip. our guide contacted us and discussed options and planned the tour based on what else we had planned and our likes. Then we met the morning in the old library. He started out by giving us 2 free all day passes for the El (everyone... More

It's a really good service offered for FREE, but unless it doesn't matter to you what you see, be specific about neighbourhoods you want to visit or you could be disappointed by wasting valuable vacation time in areas of no interest to you.

This is such a wonderful way to be introduced to the city of Chicago. Our greeter, Nancy was a wealth of information. We had the extra privilege of getting to see the city from the roof of her downtown high rise apartment building...what a thrill that was! The fact that this is a free tour given by a native Chicagoan... More

The greeter was really informative. Before the trip we expressed interest in architecture, and she brought us to really beautiful buildings around the city, including ones that would otherwise be hard to find. She also recommended an excellent boat trip to us.

My kids and I had a fabulous tour of Chicago with this program last week. The Greeter showed us some fabulous art, had a scavenger hunt ready for the kids to do of the Cultural Center and got us ready to explore the city. What a great free tour for anyone to use -- amazing. Our Greeter was with us... More

Our Chicago Greeter, Tom, was absolutely outstanding!! He clearly loves Chicago and made the tour really interesting and fun. I would highly recommend the "Chicago Greeter"!

We did the neighborhhood tour with Susan, she was great. We did the gold coast and old town tour. We saw some beautiful historic homes and received a lot of interesting facts. The streets were beautiful. We had Susan with us for 3 hours and enjoyed every minute, she was delightful!! And it was free!