Ghost Tour
Lake Michigan’s famed metropolis seems to have it all—and then some. Maybe you’ve come to Chicago to catch a comedy show at Second City, try the famous deep-dish pizza, or take a stroll through Millennium Park and catch your reflection on the mirror finish of the bean, a magnificent sculpture by Indian-born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor.
Maybe you’re a Chicago native who’s walked these streets a million times before. Either way, the beauty that towers above you in Chicago’s magnificent skyscrapers is mirrored by a darkness that lurks below the busy streets. Are you brave enough to peer beneath the surface?
Go back in time with us to an era of the Red Onion Jazz Babies, gangsters, bootleggers, and bank robbers. Windy City Ghosts nightly tours take you through Lincoln Park, a beautiful North Side neighborhood with a twisted past. Learn about the forgotten burial ground that is the foundation of this bustling neighborhood and what ghost haunted Al Capone to the end of his days.
Join a tour with Windy City Ghosts, and you’ll hear the strange and disturbing tales associated with each of the carefully selected tour stops. From the occult history of Prohibition-era pubs to the shifting statues of the lovely Oz Park, Lincoln Park is home to plenty of urban legends you may have heard scraps of—but your professional, local guides will tell you the detailed, thoroughly researched stories you can’t get anywhere else.
All Ghost Tours meet at the TIN MAN STATUE at Oz Park, 2021 N.Burling, Chicago, IL 60614 at the tours scheduled time. Don’t worry, the park is tiny—you’ll see us!
Where To Meet, Park, & Directions
Meet:
All Ghost Tours meet at the TIN MAN STATUE at Oz Park, 2021 N.Burling, Chicago, IL 60614 at the tours scheduled time. Don’t worry, the park is tiny—you’ll see us!
Park: Parking near location or use parkme.com
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
FAQs
Please see your booking details for meeting location. There are neighboring parking garages and street parking that are available in the area.
Group size varies based on time of year and demand. We can keep everyone in your party in the same group. We've been doing this for years, and manage group size to ensure guests have a great experience. In the event you can't hear your tour guide, let them know, or move closer to them.
Pets are welcome as long as they do not disrupt ot distract from the tour.
The arrival time will be listed on your confirmation email and in the available tour times when you click the book button.
Tour Preview
Chicago has a torrid and brutal history, almost as if the second city was trying to be as big and nasty as the Big Apple. Each of our carefully chosen stories will paint a picture of the history of Chicago through its fascinating hauntings. We work hard to ensure our stories spring directly from the history books.
This gives even the die-hard skeptics among our tour-goers a vivid portrait of life throughout the different ages of Chicago’s brutal past, even if don’t have the imagination to believe the ghost stories our guides relate.
Hear all about the prohibition era pub the John Barleycorn, our captivating guides will bring the past to life as they describe entering the boarded-up pub via the Chinese Laundry next door. Hear about the ghosts that still haunt the building and the moonlighting cop who ran the pub for those prohibition years!
Chicago has no shortage of ghost stories, and Lincoln Park is the perfect cross-section of mobsters, corruption, madness, and plain old human suffering. We did come across some great ghost stories from other areas of Chicago and indeed Illinois. We wanted to make the biggest walking tour in history, but instead, we added some of these stories to our Chicago Ghost Stories blog instead. We hope you enjoy them.
Below are just a few of the 8 or 12 locations we will visit on your tour. Just to give you a hint of the true, and terrifying tales we will be telling on Windy City Ghosts walking tour of Chicago.
What's On My Ghost Tour
The Tonic Room
One of the most haunted bars in all of Illinois, The Tonic Room was once the meeting place for an Egyptian-themed cult. And the marks of the occult live are still in the bar’s basement!
The Red Lion
The Red Lion Pub is home to some of the most diverse spirits (no pun intended) of Chicago’s haunted locations. From the cowboy who haunts the basement to the tidy ghost who traps people in the ladies’ restroom to the malicious former owner who still makes his presence known, you don’t want to miss the spooky history of this famed Chicago nightspot.
Biograph Theatre
Take a look at the former movie house where the FBI gunned down the notorious bank robber, John Dillinger. Then step into the alley where Dillinger died, and feel a shiver pass up your spine as you wait for a glimpse of Dillinger’s ghost—or the elusive Lady in Red who witnessed the killing.
