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SUMMER PROGRAMMING • 2021
Neighborhood scavenger hunts! Tour guide trainings! Our full summer lineup will be announced soon.

All of our events are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. We suggest a tax-deductible donation of $10-20 per viewer for those who are able. Your donations help us cover the costs of hiring speakers, pay for our website, cover our annual tax & paperwork filings, buy supplies, and otherwise compensate for the myriad of expenses that small nonprofits accrue. Our staff is entirely volunteer. You can learn more about our mission here!

VIRTUAL WINTER LECTURE SERIES 2021

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WHAT'S OLD
IS NEW(S) AGAIN:

PROTESTS, PROBLEMATIC POLITICIANS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH
A twelve-part lecture series exploring pivotal points of Chicago's history,
and how those moments can teach us about our world today
JANUARY - MARCH, 2021
LIVE
• FRIDAYS @ 6PM
WATCH THE RECORDINGS BELOW!

​2020 might have felt like a wild ride, but Chicago residents have been fighting against health pandemics, corrupt political figures, labor abuses, and mass unemployment for nearly two hundred years. Join Chicago for Chicagoans for yet another pay-what-you-can series of history lectures designed to reflect on our past and use it to inform our future. From quarantines and deadly disease, to protests for civil and worker rights, to contested elections and bribed officials, our speakers will examine the plights of our ancestors to give Chicagoans of today a better appreciation for the strength & endurance of humanity throughout the ages. 
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WATCH OUR RECORDED LECTURES:

Click the thumbnail to watch the recording. Woo-hoo!
All donations from these online lectures directly benefit our speakers and general operations.

2021: WHAT'S OLD IS NEW(S) AGAIN

"A SHTTY WAY TO GO: CHOLERA, DIPHTHERIA, & DYSENTERY" WITH ADAM SELZER
"Strikes, Strife, & Worker's Rights! Chicago's Labor Unions" by PATTI SWANSON
"Trolleys & Trouble: Chicago's Traction Wars" by AVA FRANCESCA BATTOCCHIO
"Rowdy Railroads & Pullman Protests" by WALTER KIEFER
"Cultural Epidemic: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic" by MANDY GOLEC
"THE PARTICULARS OF THE PINEAPPLE PRIMARY" BY BEN ARCHER
​"Bribery, Corruption & Operation Silver Shovel" by HEATHER CHERONE
​"The (Not So) Great Depression in Chicago" by WENDY BRIGHT
"Eight Anarchists Walk Into A Crowd: The Haymarket Affair" by LANCE BAKER
"A Never-Ending Quarantine: Tuberculosis in Chicago" BY LEYLA ROYALE
"Downtown Devastated: The Chicago Loop After 1950" by ANTHONY ALFARO
"Chicago in 1968: Riots, Revolution, & Radical Change" BY BEATRICE HARDY

OTHER VIRTUAL LECTURES

"CHICAGO'S BUNGALOW BUILDERS & THE AMERICAN DREAM" BY PATTI SWANSON
"FREEDOM THIRTEEN: THE PANDEMIC" WITH BEATRICE HARDY
"ADVERTIST JUDICIOUSLY: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ADVERTISING IN CHICAGO" with AVA FRANCESCA BATTOCCHIO
"DISCOVERING THE FIFTH CITY MOVEMENT" with VITALIY VLADIMIROV
"Second City" with Patti Swanson
"Soldier Field for Sports Lovers (and Haters)" with Lance Baker
"Exploring Old Ravenswood: A Virtual Walking Tour" with Anthony Alfaro
"PIRATES IN OUR BACKYARD: High Crimes on the High... Lakes" with Amber Kelly
"Our Buildings Build Us" with Blake Williams
"Red Lights, Blue Bags, and Downtown Parking" with Paul Dailing
"Chicago Housing Styles" with Ben Archer
"Scandals and Legacies of Prairie Avenue" with Amy Simoneau
"Artifacts from the Billseum" with Bill Savage
"A Brief & Exciting History of Chicago Brick" with Will Quam
"Women and Crime in the 1920s" with Mandy Golec
"Fabulously Fake Chicago History (An April Fool's Tour)" with Leyla Royale
"Antique Serial Killers" with Adam Selzer
"Great American City" with Walter Kiefer

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SELF-GUIDED FUN

COMMUNITY SUPPORT BINGO!

This Bingo board has 25 suggestions to help you explore your city, support local businesses, get engaged, reach out to friends, and practice self-care. Print it out and get started in your own community!

1. Print or download the board
2. Play BINGO!
3. When you win, send a picture of your board to our email. 
4. We'll send a little thank-you gift in the mail for being an explorer, ally, and contributor to your community!

BUT WHAT ABOUT WALKING TOURS?!

Due to the ever-evolving climate of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are tentatively planning to offer neighborhood walking tours again in Fall 2021 or Spring 2022. We are monitoring the situation closely, evaluating staffing and new safety procedures, and slowly working our way back to "normal" along with everyone else.
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WHAT'S THE HOLD UP? Having even a medium-sized group stand 6 feet apart on a sidewalk in Chicago is not possible in the majority of neighborhoods where we conduct tours. It would also be hard to hear your tour guide if you were so far away from them! Unfortunately, masks also complicate our guides' ability to project their voices.

WHAT ABOUT REDUCING TOUR CAPACITY? We pride ourselves on offering affordable, pay-what-you-can programming. We want every Chicagoan to be able to afford to learn about their city! However, this model only works with the financial wiggle room of larger group sizes. It would go against our mission to charge sky-high prices for tours only a select few can attend. Instead, we're focusing our energy this season on creating new, equitable educational programming that can be safely accessed by everyone. 

WHAT ABOUT PRIVATE TOURS? If you and several of your household members would like to book a private, 5-person tour, we might be able to accommodate you! Email us to inquire about the possibility. Please note that we are working with fewer tour guides this season, so availability is limited. 

WHAT WILL YOU DO INSTEAD? Right now our board of directors is knee deep in paperwork, long-term strategy planning, self-evaluating, and generally gearing up for the best, most triumphant return ever. Check back here or follow us on Facebook for updates. In the meantime... watch a recorded lecture by clicking the thumbnails above!

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Stay tuned...

PLEASE NOTE:

Help us plan an event in your neighborhood!
We're prioritizing tours in the following areas.
​Contact us to get involved:
  • Bronzeville
  • Bridgeport
  • Hyde Park
  • Avondale
  • ​Logan Square
  • Buena Park
  • Englewood 
  • ​South Shore
  • North Lawndale​
  • Tours can involve up to 3 miles of walking, and may prove difficult for those with limited mobility or mobility issues. While we stay primarily on paved paths and sidewalks, these routes may still include potholes and uneven surfaces. Please get in touch if you would like to arrange a special or self-guided tour adjusted for your mobility, or would like to simply grab a coffee and chat about the neighborhood. We do our best to help everyone, regardless of ability, learn about their city.
  • By RSVPing for, and participating in, any Chicago for Chicagoans event, you waive your right to hold Chicago for Chicagoans liable for any injuries sustained on the tour, and agree to be photographed. Read our liability & photography statements here.
  • ​We vet and affirm that each one of our speakers is qualified to lecture and speak accurately to the history of the topic they are selected for. We do not micro-manage our speakers' content or provide scripts. The research and any opinions our speakers present are purely their own. Our organization is an apolitical, neutral party that connects qualified local historians to people who want to hear them speak. 
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