Walking Tours
WALKING TOURs
The Wait is over!
our first walking tour, a people’s history of uptown, is finally back online
the Queer uptown mini tour Is also Back
affordable housing tour is Here!
Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown, Chicago
This is the first of many radical history walking tours historicizing spaces and experiences of urban displacement as well as willful emplacement over the course of the last century in Uptown. This is a self-guided tour grounded in archival research and oral history narratives that traces sustained grassroots resistance to urban renewal efforts in Uptown.
Affordable Housing Tour: Sites of Struggle, Resistance, and Collective Power
Each site on this tour documents and brings to life different models of organizing, funding, and resistance that have been employed to preserve or expand Uptown’s core of low income housing. Through the course of the tour we will encounter the recurring theme of poor people’s resistance, made possible through grassroots, coalition-building politics. The movements we highlight have given the neighborhood its identity as a refuge for the dispossessed and disadvantaged, an identity that is constantly threatened by the forces of development, displacement, and gentrification.
Mini tours
Queer Uptown: LGBTQ+ Movements in Chicago
This "mini-tour" of Uptown, a northside Chicago neighborhood, looks at some of the main hubs of LGBTQ+ community and resistance in the area. For decades, Uptown has been the site of poor and multiracial community coalitions fighting the displacement that comes with urban renewal. As a result, LGBTQ+ politics in the area has also drawn on an intersectional ethos, centering working-class, anti-racist causes.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This tour contains sexual references that may not be suitable for younger audiences.
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