The Devil in the White City: A Haunting History Tour
4.5
SPECIAL OFFER
LIKELY TO SELL OUT*
The Devil in the White City: A Haunting History Tour
By Chicago Hauntings
What is Travellers’ Choice?
Tripadvisor gives a Travellers’ Choice award to accommodations, attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travellers and are ranked within the top 10% of properties on Tripadvisor.
About
Lowest price guaranteeReserve now & pay laterFree cancellation
Ages 16-100, max of 52 per group
Duration: 3h
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
- Restroom on board
- Start:
- The Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, 520 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USAThe tour meets in the Congress Lounge bar at the Congress Plaza Hotel. The bus departs from the front of the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue. Please be there early, the bus has to leave promptly to be able to reach every destination. We cannot guarantee participation for late arrivals.
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point. - Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 12800P5- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Most travellers can participate
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 52 travellers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 12800P5
From £53.55
£53.55
per adult
Select date and travellers
Revenue impacts the experiences featured on this page, learn more.
Similar experiences
Itinerary
- 520 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USAThe tour meets in the Congress Lounge bar at the Congress Plaza Hotel. The bus departs from the front of the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue. Please be there early, the bus has to leave promptly to be able to reach every destination. We cannot guarantee participation for late arrivals.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
About the operator
Don’t take it from us – here’s what people have to say about this operator:
- ashleyeP9939DV0 contributionsdaughters birthday giftthis is the 3rd tour with this company i have been on. i took my daughter for her birthday and she loved it she is a big history buff and she likes true crime so this tour was right up her alley. tony was our guide and he is not short of details. any question we had he was quick to know the answer. he had personal experiences he shared with the group. he also had ghost hunting tools that he shared with the group as well. i will be booking again.Written 25 November 2024
- Vacation405378601580 contributionsDo not book this tour! Terrible!Terrible! Do not book. You will sit with strangers and not with your family. Very disorganized. Terrible service. I walked out given I couldn’t enjoy the tour with my family. Why even go if you have to sit with strangers because these tour operators over book it and are disorganized.Written 19 October 2024
- filonah20230 contributionsGreat tourJoanne was a good guide. Friendly and knowledgeable. I enjoyed her tour very much. We covered about 7stops and we earned a lot. However, the tour info was misleading. This tour do not bring you back to Chicago history museum. I ended up pay $8 for Uber.Written 18 October 2024
- Venture486401890930 contributionsGreat Tour with Awesome Historical InfoThe tour guide was amazing and great with sharing historical information about the area, gangsters and those living in the area.Written 30 July 2024
- CoscienzaIntegrata0 contributionsAmazing tourTour was great and very detailed. I can only recommend it especially if you don't have much time in the city. I won't spoil the best part of the tour.Written 4 July 2024
- ericmL2730IQ0 contributionsDO NOT TAKE THIS TOUR!DO NOT BOOK THIS Tour!!!! Guide and driver are extremely unprofessional. Check in process is useless. They left me behind with my wife on the bus. Then made sarcastic remarks on the PA system to the entire bus. Never once checking us in as well. Content is weak and delivery was as if the guide was talking to 4 year old children. We ended up walking off the tour. We were not going to waste our vacation time listening to a terrible tour. Then the tour refused to refund any of the ticket price hiding behind “our policy” on leaving the tour. We left the tour because it was horrible and unprofessional. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME or MONEY!!Written 21 November 2023
- 725alisac0 contributionsGirls night outGreat tour! So interesting to learn the history behind these sightings. Tony was a great guide. I would highly recommend taking one of his tours.Written 15 October 2023
- R7631YBcharlesp0 contributionsGreat funThe tour guide was fantastic so knowledgeable so many stories loan out some EMF ours had some very interesting signals as well as some apps on our phone even though I grew up in Chicago driven through Lincoln park so many times I had no idea the story behind itWritten 15 September 2023
- dpfeiffe650 contributionsThe most haunted place in Chicago.We had a great time with Tony. We learned all the reasons why Lincoln Park is so haunted. It was a pleasant walk, we learned a lot about Chicago going back to before the Civil War. He even threw in the Chicago vampire hunt of 1888. Really had a great time and would highly recommend the walking tour.Written 6 September 2023
- R4005QVcolleenb0 contributionsghost tourJust went this pass Saturday, it was good and interesting however in the post it says there would be bathroom break and can get something to eat during this 3 hour tour-nothing was bought up either about bathroom breaks or eating.Written 21 August 2023
- abbeyo6050 contributionsGreat tourTony is the best tour guide ever. His stories were great and he knows so much about Chicago history.Written 25 June 2023
- Bill K0 contributionsEnjoyable and informativeDid this tour during a recent trip to Chicago. Our guide Tony was fantastic. Very knowledgeable and informative as well as enjoyable to listen too. I'd recommend this tour for anyone visiting Chicago.Written 19 June 2023
- T7194ZZemilyj0 contributionsGreat experienceI loved the history and the entire experience. I went with my husband and our 12 year old daughter and we all had a good time and learned a lot about the history of the Lincoln Park area. It was fascinating.Written 31 May 2023
- P5271TMkats0 contributionsA tour through timeThis tour told the awesome history of Chicago people and architecture. The bus stopped at key locations and allowed time to immerse in the locations we learned about. The bus driver was safe and friendly and the tour guide was excellent. We highly recommend this tour as a way to cruise through the windy city's past.Written 7 May 2023
- Kelledg10 contributionsDefinitely go on this tour!Loved this ghost tour! We learned a lot about the history of Chicago and got to explore the city from a warm bus. Our guide was very knowledgeable!Written 1 May 2023
These reviews are the subjective opinions of Tripadvisor members and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Contribute
Most Recent: Reviews ordered by most recent publish date in descending order.
Detailed Reviews: Reviews ordered by recency and descriptiveness of user-identified themes such as waiting time, length of visit, general tips, and location information.
We perform checks on reviews.
Tripadvisor’s approach to reviews
Before posting, each Tripadvisor review goes through an automated tracking system, which collects information, answering the following questions: how, what, where and when. If the system detects something that potentially contradicts our community guidelines, the review is not published.
When the system detects a problem, a review may be automatically rejected, sent to the reviewer for validation, or manually reviewed by our team of content specialists, who work 24/7 to maintain the quality of the reviews on our site.
Our team checks each review posted on the site disputed by our community as not meeting our community guidelines.
Learn more about our review moderation.
4.5
7 reviews
Excellent
5
Very good
2
Average
0
Poor
0
Terrible
0
Mari Q
10 contributions
Oct 2024 • Family
Tony was very knowledgeable about the history of Chicago and the prominent people during the Columbian World's Fair of 1893. We explored some interesting neighborhoods we have never been to. Eg. Prairie Historic district. We had very good fall weather during our tour. What would have made it interesting is going to the haunted 12th floor of the Congress hotel. (Our meeting place). We wish there was more to see of the HH Holmes murder Castle. Unfortunately it's no longer there.
Written 16 October 2024
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Jerry L
Berwyn, IL48 contributions
Aug 2019 • Couples
I felt the tour and tour guide deserve 5 stars (3 hours), but i felt a little shorted about the actual HH Holmes information. I loved going into areas I've never visited! If you love Chicago history, this is a great tour, if you want to learn a lot about HH Holmes, you might feel you want more.
Written 19 August 2019
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Mark R
Muncie, IN2 contributions
Mar 2020 • Couples
The tour was amazing the tour guide knew some much about the subject. We'll be coming back for more.Well worth the trip.
Written 9 March 2020
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
slpnbuety2
Chicago, IL4 contributions
Aug 2019
This was an awesome tour - learned so much - it held my interest from beginning to end plus I got to see parts of Chicago I would have never seen otherwise. Extremely knowledgeable host. It would be great if the post office basement could somehow be made a part of the tour - eventually. If at all possible.
Because of the information I learned on the tour, I was able to do some research on the area of town I just moved to a few months ago and found that it was part of the "stockyards" as well as "skid row"...lovely.
Because of the information I learned on the tour, I was able to do some research on the area of town I just moved to a few months ago and found that it was part of the "stockyards" as well as "skid row"...lovely.
Written 6 August 2019
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
KarLovesToTravel
Chicago, IL19 contributions
Aug 2019
The tour guide was at the pick up location at least 45 minutes early and the bus was on time, so it was very well organized. Had a drink at the Congress Hotel before we started the tour and learned about the ghosts at the Congress. This was a very informative tour, not only about HH Holmes, but about Chicago in general in the 1890s.The guide and the bus driver were funny and had tons of stories. Lots of cool stops and information about the World's Fair to help set the scene, before we went to the location of the Murder Castle. I have lived in Chicago for 20 years and this tour went to places I had not seen before and I learned things I didn't know about the city. Highly recommended this tour to all visitors to the city and to those who live here.
Written 5 August 2019
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Kathy H
1 contribution
Apr 2024 • Friends
The guide was very good and was able to work well with different personality types (we had one guest on our tour who wanted to let everyone know how knowledgeable he was) Guide gave of lots of fun facts. I think it’s a tour that you should read the book first
Written 28 April 2024
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Chris H
2 contributions
Oct 2018 • Solo
I was deeply impressed with the knowledge and experience offered by my guide on this tour. From the beginning to the end, I was enthralled with the experience and my guides wide-ranging knowledge.
Without doubt, Chicago Ghost Tours are the very best and offer an AAA+ premium experience. I would unreservedly recommend this company to anyone who wants the best that is on offer.
Without doubt, Chicago Ghost Tours are the very best and offer an AAA+ premium experience. I would unreservedly recommend this company to anyone who wants the best that is on offer.
Written 8 July 2019
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Thank you so much for your kind words! We are delighted that you enjoyed your experience and truly appreciate your visit with us!
Written 10 July 2019
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Showing results 1-1 of 1
Buy it with
Top rated
*Likely to sell out: Based on Viator’s booking data and information from the provider from the past 30 days, it seems likely this experience will sell out through Viator, a Tripadvisor company.