Paris in Chicago: Walking Tour of Grant Park SOLD OUT!

Wednesday, August 23 Rescheduled for Friday, August 25, 2023

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.

Our meeting point will be circulated to ticket holders in advance of the tour. We will start and end at different locations in the park, and we will be walking for about two hours. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water.

About the Speaker:

Julia S. Bachrach is an award-winning author, historian, preservationist, and urban planner. She served as historian and planning supervisor to the Chicago Park District for more than two decades. Her books include The City in a Garden: A History of Chicago’s Parks and Inspired by Nature: The Garfield Park Conservatory and Chicago’s West Side. She contributed essays to AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture, Oxford Companion to the Garden, Midwestern Landscape Architecture, and Encyclopedia of Chicago.