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Seasonal Events
offered in addition to
our regularly scheduled tours:
Resurrection Mary &
The Hauntings of Archer Avenue
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 2008
3:00-7:00 PM
 Few
roads in the world rival the haunted reputation of Chicago's Archer
Avenue, home to some of the city's most famous ghost stories, including
the most famous Vanishing Hitchhiker on earth, Resurrection Mary.
This road was built by poor Irish immigrants --builders of the
controversial and ill-funded Illinois & Michigan Canal-- who laid
down the road over an ancient Indian trail known for its spiritual
powers. The slavelike conditions of their labor, their deaths
from hunger, thirst, disease and violence: all live on in the deep
folklore of this storied region.
Join us for a very special trip down this fabled road, when we'll
travel from its beginnings in haunted Chinatown to its darkest burial
ground: the mournful churchyard of St. James at Sag Bridge. Along the
way we'll glimpse Kaiser Hall in old Bridgeport, where the Devil
himself once came to dance. We'll see the homes of Ana Marija
Norkus and Mary Bregovy - believed by some to be the sources of
the Resurrection Mary legend. We'll travel through the gate of
the abandoned Union Stockyards, where Mary worked in the factories of
Packingtown, and we'll pass the funeral home which prepared her body
for burial. Late into the evening, we'll view the Willowbrook
Ballroom, famed stomping ground of Chicago's most famous ghost, and
we'll enjoy an excellent dinner.
$55 per person includes tour, dinner and two drinks. For reservations, click here.
The Shots of '29
Gangland Pub Crawl
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2008
6:00-10:00 PM
 Celebrate
Valentine's Day Chicago Hauntings-style, with ghostly stories of
love--and liquor--to commemorate the 79th anniversary of Chicago's most
notorious event, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
$30 per person
For reservations, click HERE!
The Guns & Roses Tour
(A.K.A MY BLOODY VALENTINE)
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14th, 2009
7:00 PM
Join
us for our infamous annual Valentine's Day tour, when we'll revisit
some of Chicago's most reviling--and most romantic--haunted sites.
We'll travel to haunted sites tied to Chicago's tragic love
stories, as well as those connected to Chicago's criminal past.,
including the infamous site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Ticket price
includes fully-narrated tour, door prizes and transportation via ghost
bus.
$30 per person
For reservations, click HERE!
Haunted by Holmes:
The Devil in the White City Tour
SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 2009
4:00-7:00 PM
 A THREE-HOUR EXCURSION TO THE
PLACES AND SPACES MADE WORLD-FAMOUS BY ERIK LARSON'S PHENOMENAL
BESTSELLER, "THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY." WE'LL REVISIT 19TH-CENTURY
CHICAGO IN AN EXTENDED, INTRIGUING TRIP TO THE 1893 COLUMBIAN
FAIRGROUNDS, INCLUDING THE GHOST-RIDDEN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,
THE JACKSON PARK LAGOON, AND THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE. WE'LL TRAVEL
THROUGH THE CANYONS OF THE LOOP, RETRACING THE FOOTSTEPS OF H.H.
HOLMES' CHICAGO LIFE--AND DEATH. AND, YES, WE'LL PAY A VISIT TO THE
SITE OF THE ERSTWHILE "MURDER CASTLE" OF 63RD STREET, WHERE THE EVIL
MUDGETT BROUGHT AGONIZING ENDS TO VICTIMS ESTIMATED IN THE HUNDREDS.
AFTERWARDS, WE'LL STEADY OUR NERVES AND LIFT A GLASS OF SPIRITS IN AN
ATMOSPHERIC TAVERN ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD HARDSCRABBLE.
$40 per person
For reservations, click HERE!
The Chief
O'Neill Memorial Pub Crawl
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009
6:00-10:00 PM
 This is it. The
most popular tour of the year. Join
us on the brink of Chicago's Irish feast day for a four-hour
saturation by Chicago's Irish spirits, including a visit to Chief
O'Neill's own haunted public house to commemorate the great man's
contributions to Chicago and America. We'll tell the haunted history of
Bridgeport at a local pump, meet the ghost of Haray Caray at a
Wrigleyville tavern, and toast the memory of Irish mob king, Bugs
Moran, near the site of his near-death, the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre. Throughout, we'll tell tales of Chicago's ill-fated Irish
I&M canalers, revisit the site of Engine 107--and Frank Leavy's "Hand of
Death"--, and we'll share the curious past of Bishop Muldoon at the site of his
vanquished rectory . Wear the green and B.Y.O.
(green) B.--or the libations of your choice-- for the bus ride in
between.
Ticket price includes fully-narrated tour, door prizes, and transportation via ghost
bus.
$40 per person (cash bar at pub stops)
For reservations, click here!
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