Paris in Chicago: Walking Tour of Grant Park

Chicago historian Julia Bachrach, author of The City in a Garden: A History of Chicago’s Parks, will be your guide on this walking tour through Grant Park to see the many ways Parisian landscape design influenced Chicago. Stops will include Buckingham Fountain, majestic elm tree allées, Beaux Arts style ornamental concrete details, and one of Paris’ gifts to its Sister City, Chicago: a Hector Guimard Metro entranceway at Van Buren Street and Michigan Avenue.