To celebrate Pride month, Chicago Detours is offering an “LGBT CHICAGO HISTORY IN 1893 VIRTUAL TOUR” on Saturday, June 13, 2020, at 2:30 pm.
This special tour was intended to be a walking tour in the Chicago Loop, but instead will be available as an online program and open to everyone. The tour will explore stories of gay and lesbian history from the 19th-century, set against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair Tour. While digging into how and why the World’s Columbian Exposition still captures imaginations more than 125 years later, the virtual tour will illuminate the LGBT history of Chicago.
Tickets are $8 for the one-hour program on Zoom. Learn more about the event and register here.
The artist Frank D. Millet, Director of Decorations, and his assistants at work on artwork for the 1893 World’s Fair. [Image from Johnson, Rossiter A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition Volume 1 – Narrative. D. Appleton and Co., 1897.]