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What We Do
At Out & About, we tell the truth of history by tying it to the reality of the present:
The Great Chicago Fire is more than a tragic disaster from our past, it's the catalyst for our iconic skyline today. Many know Chicago as a vibrant immigrant hub, but few know the story of DuSable, the Haitian explorer who founded the city. We reversed the Chicago River for clean drinking water - but at what cost to our ecosystem?
History doesn't live in a vacuum. At Out & About, we connect the dots between the past and the present with as many sides of the story as we can find. Chicago's beauty is as much a result of pioneering visionaries as it is the result of oppression and greed. Get into the messy histories of Chicago as we go
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Meet the Team
We met at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where we rolled around on the floor for three years and received our MFAs in Acting. After graduation, we landed gigs as tour guides giving world-renowned architecture tours on the Chicago River. And what started as a side hustle soon became a passion.
Over the course of five years, we developed our deep love of sharing Chicago's history, but began to feel bound by the restrictions placed on our storytelling. The truth is, most tour companies in Chicago want their tours to be easily digestible, wholly positive, and entirely apolitical. But we wanted to give the tour to our guests that we would take ourselves - the tour that told the whole story.
Our love of the city and our desire to tell its unfiltered history to visitors and residents alike became the seed for Out & About.
