Chicago Art Deco Architecture Walking Tour

Chicago’s Loop is home to some of the city’s most perfectly preserved Art Deco architecture designed during the Roaring 20s. See 7 stunning Art Deco buildings, all masterpieces in their unique & individual ways, as well as 4-5 other notable properties and outdoor sculptures on this fun and fabulous walk of Chicago's Financial District and parts of the North Michigan Avenue corridor. Your tour guide, interior designer, and historical architecture guru Ronnie Frey will paint a picture you'll not soon forget of modern life in the New Machine Age.

Meeting Point

Wintrust Mortgage

231 S La Salle St 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604, USA

Meet in front of Wintrust Bank Building near the intersection of S LaSalle Drive and W. Jackson Boulevard.

What's included:

• Historical photos of each stop in a free app

What to expect:

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Chicago Board Of Trade Building

141 W Jackson Blvd, La Salle Street, Chicago, 60604-2992, Illinois

Learn about all the Art Deco architectural details on the exterior and the interior lobby (when open).

20 minutes

Calder’s Flamingo

50 W Adams St, Federal Plaza, Chicago, 60603-5107, Illinois

Catch a distant view of this incredible red sculpture.

Pass by without stopping

135 South Lasalle Street

135 South Lasalle Street, Chicago, Illinois

Learn about all the Art Deco architectural details on the exterior and the interior arcade (when open).

15 minutes

One North Lasalle Street

1 N La Salle St, Chicago, 60602-3902, Illinois

Learn about all the Art Deco architectural details on the exterior and the interior lobby (when open).

15 minutes

33 N La Salle St

33 N La Salle St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

Learn about all the Art Deco architectural details on the exterior.

10 minutes

First United Methodist Church of Chicago

77 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA

See the amazing gothic architectural details on the exterior and photos of the interior of the tallest church in America, the "chapel in the sky".

5 minutes

Miro's Chicago

69 W Washington St, Chicago, 60602-3134, Illinois

See this famous outdoor sculpture.

2 minutes

The Picasso

50 W Washington St, Richard J. Daley Plaza Civic Center, Chicago, 60602-1305, Illinois

See this famous outdoor sculpture.

2 minutes

Macy's on State Street

111 N State St, , Chicago, 60602-1659, Illinois

See interior Art Deco motifs in the old Marshall Field Department Store and also the famous Tiffany Glass atrium. Also, see the famous "meet me under the clock" Field's 7-ton bronze clocks from the early 1900s.

10 minutes

Carbide and Carbon Building

230 N Michigan Ave, , Chicago, 60601-5906, Illinois

Learn about the Art Deco architectural details on the exterior and interior lobby of this famous, green terra cotta building.

10 minutes