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Self-Guided Tours
Each stop on our Chicago tour connects a specific place to the policy that shaped it. Redlining boundaries you can still trace in the infrastructure. Urban renewal demolitions that erased entire blocks. Highway routes that split neighborhoods in half. Click a location on the map to explore.
Tour Map
CHICAGO
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Beneath the Surface
The history did not stop at the shoreline. These routes read the river and the lakefront from below, mostly in writing, with 360 look-around scenes at the stops where seeing the water matters.
A two-hour walk through Hyde Park and the neighborhoods around it, led by trained youth researchers. You hear the history of redlining, urban renewal, and community resistance at the places where it actually happened.
The tour covers the University of Chicago’s expansion campaigns, Bronzeville’s redlining boundaries, and the organizing that fought back.