Seadog Speedboat – Chicago Architecture Boat Tour

Take a thrilling Chicago architecture boat tour to discover the great history of Chicago’s towering skyscrapers with a thrilling Chicago boat tour.

Highlights

• Exciting, descriptive, professionally narrated 75-minute tour
• Cruise the lakefront, through the locks and along the river
• Exciting views and descriptions of Chicago’s most famous architecture, landmarks and history
• Thrilling speedboat ride on the lake

Seadog Speedboat – Chicago Architecture Boat Tour

What’s the sound of 2,000+ HP when you begin? Learn when you’re riding the Seadog! The only tour to bring you across the locks and along the river from the lakefront. The Architecture Tour of the Seadog River & Lake is the best option to experience Chicago.

Seadog is the perfect way to experience the architecture of Chicago while crossing the river! The Seadog River & Lake Architecture Tour is your best choice to experience Chicago, the only tour to take you from the lakefront, through the locks and along the river.

From popular and simple to locate Navy Pier, depart straight. Includes passage to Sears Tower through the historic Chicago River Locks and up the Chicago River, an architectural river trip and a speedboat ride along the lake front.

Our professionally narrated tour is educational, fun and interesting:

• Learn when and why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed.
• Learn how Chicago architects pioneered skyscraper construction
• Learn why the beautiful Chicago lakefront is almost all parkland
• Learn about an $80 million dollar skyscraper construction mistake
• See and hear about the dozens of skyscrapers lining the Chicago River including the Sears Tower and the Tribune Tower.

You’ll also get a stunning view of the Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan with Seadog Cruises. And only Seadog completes the architectural tour with an exciting speedboat ride along the lake featuring Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park, lovely Chicago Harbor, Museum Campus in Chicago and much, much more!

Get your e-ticket and go riding on the Seadog River & Lake Architecture Tour to learn about Chicago’s renowned architecture in a fun and exciting manner!

Make your way to Navy Pier or Michigan Avenue for your cruise departure (depending on which option you choose). Board your riverboat and select a comfortable seat; the boat has a restroom and, on occasion, a full bar. As your guide, an architecture specialist, introduces you to the city’s highlights, pay attention.

See buildings designed by world-renowned architects like as Mies van der Rohe, Helmut Jahn, and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill along the picturesque path. The best vantage point for admiring the distinctive city skyline is from a riverboat. Pass past the John Hancock Center, the Willis Tower (previously known as the Sears Tower), the Wrigley Building, and the Lyric Opera House, among more than 40 notable structures.

Listen as your guide describes two key events that shaped the city’s architectural history. Learn how the advent of balloon-frame building revolutionized home construction and hear about Chicago’s spectacular recovery from the Great Fire of 1871. Chicago became one of the cradles of contemporary American architecture as a result of both of these events.

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Chicago and the US attractions and landmarks

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• United States Attractions

17-Mile Drive Akaka Falls State Park Akatsuka Orchid Gardens Alcatraz Island Angels Landing Ansel Adams Wilderness Area Antelope Canyon Arches National Park Arlington National Cemetery Artist’s Palette Badwater Basin Barstow Outlets Bellagio Hotel and Casino Beverly Hills Boeing Factory Boston Common Boston Harbor Bridalveil Fall Brooklyn Bridge Bryce Canyon Bunker Hill Monument Canyonlands National Park Capitol Hill Cave of the Winds Central Park Charging Bull Charles River Chihuly Garden and Glass Chinatown SF Chinese Theatre Coeur d’Alene Colorado River Corning Museum of Glass Dante’s View Death Valley National Park Devil’s Golf Course Diamond Head Disney World – Magic Kingdom Disneyland Park Eagle Point El Capitan Empire State Building Epcot Center Ethel M. Chocolate Factory and Botanical Cactus Gardens FDR Memorial Fisherman’s Wharf Freedom Trail Glacier National Park Glen Canyon Dam Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Park Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon Skywalk Grand Canyon West Rim Grand Teton National Park Griffith Park Observatory Half Dome Halona Blowhole Hanauma Bay Harvard Square Harvard University Hawaii State Capitol Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hearst Castle Hershey’s Chocolate World Hole in the Rock Hollywood Sign Hollywood Walk of Fame Hoover Dam Horseshoe Bend Hualapai Nation Reservation Iao Valley Independence Hall Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum Iolani Palace Jackson Hole Kaimu Black Sand Beach Kapalua Bay Kilauea Iki Crater King Kamehameha Statue Korean War Veterans Memorial Lahaina Lake Mead Lake Michigan Lake Powell Lake Tahoe Las Vegas Strip Lava Tree State Monument Leavenworth Liberty Bell Library of Congress Lincoln Memorial Lombard Street Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. Mammoth Hot Springs Mammoth Lakes Market Street Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Maui Tropical Plantation Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Visitor Center Maunalua Bay Metropolitan Museum of Art Mojave Desert Monterey Bay Monument Valley Mt. Rainier Mt. Rushmore National Memorial Nani Mau Gardens National Air and Space Museum National Mall National Museum of American History Navajo Nation Niagara Falls Norris Geyser Basin NYC Trinity Church Olympic National Park Olympic Sculpture Park One World Trade Center Oue Skyspace Palace of Fine Arts Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor National Memorial Pike Place Market Pilgrim Monument Polynesian Cultural Center Punaluu Black Sand Beach Quincy Market Rainbow Falls Red Rock Canyon Richardson Black Sand Beach Ripley’s Believe It or Not Rockefeller Center Rodeo Drive Route 66 San Francisco Bay San Francisco City Hall Santa Monica Pier SeaWorld San Diego Shoshone Falls Sierra Nevada Silicon Valley Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Solvang Space Needle Spokane Statue of Liberty Sunset Strip Temple Square The White House Thomas A. Jaggar Museum Thomas Jefferson Memorial Thurston Lava Tube Times Square Twin Peaks Union Square San Francisco United States Capitol Universal Studios Hollywood University of California Berkeley USS Arizona Memorial Valley of Fire Vietnam Veterans Memorial Virgin River Waikele Premium Outlets Waikiki Beach Wailua River Waimea Canyon Wall Street Washington Monument Watkins Glen Park Whalers Village Whirlpool State Park White Sands Beach Whydah Pirate Wind Cave Woodbury Outlets World War II Memorial Yellowstone Lake Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone River Yosemite Falls Yosemite National Park Zabriskie Point Zion National Park

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