Jump to: Reviews | Too Weird To Tour

We all fall into our routines: home, work, knitting circle, repeat. Check out a side of Chicago you’ve never seen before with today’s Groupon for a $20 tour (normally $30) at Weird Chicago Tours, curators of the city’s finest ghosts, gangsters, and superfreaks. Call or visit Weird Chicago's online schedule to book your tour ahead of time. All tours last about three hours and depart from the conveniently central Hard Rock Cafe, from which all weirdness radiates outward in concentric strangelets due to its construction upon a reality bending vortex. Children must be at least 10 if they want to explore Chicago's dark side, and 18 for the Red Light District Sex Tour.

Weird Chicago offers a tour to sate every twisted taste. Ghost-gawkers can visit a wide array of haunted hotspots throughout the north side, west side, and Loop during the “Weird & Haunted” Tour. History buffs might prefer the “Devil & The White City” Tour, which includes the location of the Murder Castle where serial killer H. H. Holmes went about his grisly business during the 1893 World's Fair, before becoming the first human being to eat an ice cream cone on a Ferris Wheel. Crime buffs will love the "Bloody Chicago" Crime Tour of gangster-related sites, while those who prefer sex to violence can explore the kinkiest locations of Chicago, past and present, including red light districts, S&M dungeons, toy shops that don't sell any action figures you'll recognize, and more.

Owners Troy Taylor, Adam Selzer, and Ken Melvoin-Berg and guide Erica Behringer bring more than 30 years of combined local experience to every tour. They're a diverse, ink-armed bunch of authors, filmmakers, seance-mediums, and ghost-hunters as fascinatingly weird as the tours they guide. Chicago has a gritty side to its history that other major cities can only wimpily aspire to, and Weird Tours offers you the chance to reconnect with it. So bring along your most paranormal pals, your entire bachelorette party, or your easily frightened hippie roommate and his talking dog.

Reviews

Yelpers give Weird Chicago Tours five stars:

• If you are a Chicago native and are looking for something different and interesting then I wholeheartedly recommend this tour! – Orlando R.
• A great idea for a private party. – doris d.
• Another good thing about the Weird Chicago tours is that they have sites where they have exclusive access, and you will not get the same tour twice as Ken told us that he likes to change things around to keep it fresh. – Linda P.