This is an excellent free service using the skills of local Chicagoans. Gary, our Greeter was welcoming, informative and knowledgeable. This was our first visit to Chicago and it gave us a real feel of what Chicago has to offer. We looked round the Cultural Centre, visited Millennium Park and the surrounding area. We also used public transport to travel... More

My Greeter is Chuck, a retired lawyer. In fact, he owned a law firm and his name printed on the wall and door. After become managing partner in his law firm, he retired and become Chicago Greeter twice a month. We visited to his "old" office, because we need to drop our mobile phone. We visited Chicago District Court and... More

My wife set up our reservation prior to our Chicago visit. Our greeter, Dick Elkins, was very nice and quite knowledgeable about Chicago. Our tour stayed within walking distance of our meeting place which was the Visitor Center. The history and architecture highlighted during the 4 hours was amazing. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone spending time in downtown Chicago.

We initially requested a tour of certain neighborhoods; however, the timing didn't work out with our schedule - so we requested Greeter's Choice. Our knowledgeable and wonderful tour guide was Wally. The depth of knowledge that Wally had of the city made our stay in Chicago much more fulfilling. In fact, my husband and I revisited some of the buildings... More

there was major construction on the L the day we toured...so we spent a bit of time (nearly 45 mins) trying to cicumvent the construction...and I only had 2.5 hours. I wish I had had more time...but they had to reschedule me and it backed up to my seminar. It is a GREAT service and I would do it again... More

I had my Chicago Greeter experience and I have to say it was wonderful. My Chicago Greeter (Tom ... genious!!) show me many interesting sites and gave me the most interesting data about this wonderful city. And we made this experience complete when we finished the tour having lunch together at a place only a person who lives in Chicago... More

I really thanks my guide Paul for his time and patient to voluntarily take me to a city tour, tailored for my likes and arrange beforehand lots of information on music bars and venues to visti at night! Im always surprised that there is actually good people on the world who just want to make good actions to other people,... More

We visited Chicago last September and before going were tipped off about the Greeter service. We contacted them about two weeks before travelling and from then on the service was superb - we were asked the purpose of our trip, our interests, anything we wanted to see! Our greeter was called Bill - really helpful, interesting guy - a jazz... More

If this is your first visit to Chicago, as it was for us, take advantage of the free Chicago Greeter program and register on-line at least 2-weeks in advance. We were asked what we were interested in seeing so do a little research beforehand so that your greeter can customize a personalize tour for you. Tom R. was our assigned... More