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Haunted Chicago Tour: Ghostly City Exploration
4.8
5 Ratings
Chicago
Embark on a self-guided exploration of haunted Chicago with the Chicago Haunted Smartphone Tour. Experience professionally produced narration, turn-by-turn guidance, and learn about the city’s haunted spots and tragic events.
Embark on a self-guided exploration of haunted Chicago with the Chicago Haunted Smartphone Tour. Experience professionally produced narration, turn-by-turn guidance, and learn about the city’s haunted spots and tragic events.
Duration:
1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- S.S. Eastland Memorial - Visit the S.S. Eastland Memorial site and discover the tale of the ship’s sinking and the spirits that are said to linger there.
- Chicago Riverwalk - This tour takes you along the riverwalk, sharing stories of the city and the spirits that haunt the river. You might even encounter a ghost or hear one.
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- S.S. Eastland Memorial - Visit the S.S. Eastland Memorial site and discover the tale of the ship’s sinking and the spirits that are said to linger there.
- Chicago Riverwalk - This tour takes you along the riverwalk, sharing stories of the city and the spirits that haunt the river. You might even encounter a ghost or hear one.
- City of Chicago - City Hall - The tour includes a stop at Chicago City Hall, where you’ll learn about its hauntings, accompanied by themed music.
- West Couch Place - Walk through Couch Place, also known as Death Alley, and learn about the theater fire, one of history’s deadliest events, and the spirits that now roam there.
- Marshall Field’s Wholesale Store - The tour pauses outside Marshall Field’s Wholesale Store, where you’ll hear about its past use for healing the sick, though not all were cured.
- Palmer House Hilton Historic Lobby - The tour visits the exterior of the hotel, sharing tales of its haunted rooms.
- Exchequer Restaurant & Pub - Discover the establishment’s dark history.
- Fine Arts Building - The tour stops outside the Fine Arts Building to recount stories of its artistic spirits.
- The Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center - The tour concludes at the historic Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, where you’ll hear about numerous hauntings.
What's Included
- Tour on our walking tour app
- See historic Chicago
- Discover Chicago’s haunted spots
- Tour on our walking tour app
- See historic Chicago
- Discover Chicago’s haunted spots
What's Not Included
- no food, drinks or entrance tickets, this self guided tour is all outside.
- no food, drinks or entrance tickets, this self guided tour is all outside.
Additional Information
Discover haunted Chicago on your own schedule and at your own pace. Explore anytime.
Why take this tour?
- It’s like having a personal tour guide, right on your phone.
- Tour at your own pace and schedule.
- A professionally produced, narrated, and musically edited immersive experience.
- Guided by technology. Keep your phone in your pocket while the…
Discover haunted Chicago on your own schedule and at your own pace. Explore anytime.
Why take this tour?
- It’s like having a personal tour guide, right on your phone.
- Tour at your own pace and schedule.
- A professionally produced, narrated, and musically edited immersive experience.
- Guided by technology. Keep your phone in your pocket while the smart tour guides you turn by turn with voice directions.
- Great value.
- See and learn about Chicago’s haunted spots, tragic events, fires, and the spirits that remain.
- Listen again after the tour.
- The tour never expires—go or listen (after the on-location tour) anytime.
This haunted adventure is a smartphone-guided on-location tour. The operator goes to the first stop, opens the tour, enters the experience code, and presses play. From there, turn-by-turn guidance leads through the city. The app knows the operator’s location and seamlessly guides each step of the way.
Location
Riverwalk
East Wacker Drive
The tour starts at the entrance to the river walk. The tour then takes you down to the river walk where you'll walk along the river and under the bridges hearing the stories of those that haunt it now.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Noramc74
Jun 6, 2026
Informative and entertaining - I enjoy learning about hauntings and historical events when I visit places. This self-guided walking tour was well done. It was easy to navigate the streets with the map along with all the vocal cues. The walk was enjoyable and a nice way to spend an hour and a half. I extended my tour by taking extra time to visit the insides of some of the buildings and it was easy to pause and resume the tour when I got back to it. The voice over was engaging. I recommend this to anyone who would like to experience a different flavor of Chicago lore.
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Sbadaracco
May 17, 2026
Worth every penny, great detail on locations - It was great, easy to follow and great detail. The only issue I had that was disappointing was that at the Palmer house, it was mentioned that room 660 and 725 are haunted but the 6th and 7th floors are both meeting room spaces, no rooms. I don't know if a different part of the hotel had rooms on those floors or those rooms have been replaced with the meeting room spaces on both floors or if those rooms are on higher floors, which wouldn't make sense of course. Alas, it was disappointing not to find those rooms. Overall, it was a tour worth every penny and I ate at the Exchequer restaurant mentioned on the tour and it was delicious!
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Luxbronzed_zsazsa
Nov 10, 2024
Fun and entertaining tour! ;) - Wonderful historical tour. I throughly enjoyed the narrator’s voice and descriptions. The logistics were perfection, ends in the south loop, I highly recommend and will look for more tours with this company.
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Tylerduffyproduction
Oct 27, 2024
This walking tour made my afternoon in Chicago an absolutely awesome time. - I had an absolutely awesome time on this walking tour. It was super well researched and historical fascinating. Stories from many different periods of time in Chicago’s past, with a wide variety of topics.
I will absolutely be checking in for tours with Greg from walkintours at every city I visit now.
It was such a fun and captivating way to learn about the city, and the narrations, audio engineering, and sound design is top quality and was absolutely fantastic.
Thanks so much for putting this together, I loved it.
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Maryanne_m
Apr 9, 2024
Fun and informative. - The stories were great and informative. The narrator was fun to listen to. Lots of walking meant great exercise.
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