HH Holmes: The Devil Downtown Walking Tour

121 West Wacker Drive,Chicago IL 60601

14 August, 2021

Description

Trace the career of the "Devil in the White City" through buildings to which he can really be traced in the loop! Though HH Holmes, the "Devil in the White City," is best known for his activities in Englewood, far south of downtown, the vast majority of locations to which he can be traced are in and around the loop. In this walking tour, Adam Selzer, author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book HH HOLMES: THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE WHITE CITY DEVIL, illuminates Holmes' Chicago career though a walking tour of downtown locations, including a number of still-standing buildings to which Holmes can be traced. The most informative, in-depth, accurate and stunning Holmes tour available! ADAM SELZER is the host of the Mysterious Chicago podcast, and a recognized authority on Holmes. His research has been cited in Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and more, and he's appeared on such programs as Haunted History, Dark Places, Hotel Secrets, Murderous History, and History channel series American Ripper, on which he also served as consulting producer. His Plutarch-nominated 2017 Holmes biography received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal, and brought tons of new data on Holmes to light.  He also has fifteen years of experience running ghost tours, crime tours, architectural tours, and more around Chicago and New York, and cool stories from Chicago history and architectural info are woven into the Holmes tour.  If DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY piqued your curiosity, you won't want to miss delving deeper in the true tale of HH Holmes! NOTES: The route will cover about a mile and a half of walking over the course of about 90 minutes, beginning at W. Wacker and N LaSalle, then ending near Ida B. Wells and Dearborn in the South Loop, close to the Harold Washington Library. Wear sufficiently comfortable shoes. The tour runs rain or shine! PRAISE FOR ADAM'S HOLMES BOOK:  "Adam Selzer's masterful sleuthing proves to us, 'The devil IS in the details." - Steve Hodel, NYT Bestselling author of Black Dahlia Avenger "Selzer takes apart the dovetailed pieces of fact and legend to show the myth-making behind one of America's most infamous boogey-men." - Donald Rumbelow, author of The Complete History of Jack the Ripper. (note: the tour will talk about the "murder castle" in great detail, but the site itself is now a vacant lot next to a post office several miles south, and not included on the walking tours).  GETTING THERE:   The tour will meet outside the gorgeous art deco LaSalle Wacker Building, across the street from the Chicago River at the corner of Wacker and LaSalle (121 W Wacker). It's very close the Clark and Lake L stop (Blue, Orange, Brown, Green and Pink lines) and the State/Lake Red Line stop. The Clark (22) and State Street (29) busses come very close, as well.  Many parking garages are nearby. The tour will wind up around State and Ida B. Wells, several blocks south of the start (some tours I can work into a circle, but sometimes the geography and the stories just don't work like that!) - The tour is almost all in the safe outdoors, except for one short portion, but we -strongly- request that patrons be fully vaxxed against Covid 19 (really, we hope you have all your shots!). If you have questions about the vaccines, the Mayo Clinic has an excellent page to answer them. - Restrooms are usually available before the tour on the riverwalk across thre street. Finding one mid-tour is difficult.