Upcoming Events at NA
Sat Dec 5, 6:00 PM - Sat Dec 5, 9:00 PM
NA
N Michigan Ave & E Lake St., Chicago, IL 60601
Community: Downtown Chicago
Description
Here is a special chance to experience our newest Chicago food tour, normally offered only to private groups. This experience connects the history of drinking with the story of Bridgeport, a historically working-class neighborhood.
Event Details
On this food tour pub crawl by bus, you will learn about Chicago industry, saloon history and politics while enjoying beers, good company, and local fare. And we are celebrating on the special date of the 82nd repeal of prohibition, December 5, 1933!
More than a food tour with just eating, you will learn about the neighborhood’s rich cultural history through its food. Bridgeport residents have been Lithuanian, German, Polish, Italian, Czech and Irish, and more recently also Chinese and Mexican. For example, we taste Lithuanian bread and eat mother-in-law sandwiches, a South Side specialty that likely originates from soul food of the Mississippi Delta.
For this one-off tour, you will eat, drink and learn in between being whisked from one experience to another on a luxury coach for three hours. Stops at casual neighborhood bars include architectural history and fascinating stories culled from family lore from barkeepers.
The title for this tour comes from a Carl Sandburg poem. His phrase “big shoulders” has come to commonly refer to the city’s laboring roots. Bridgeport is Chicago’s oldest neighborhood, and located just north of the former Union Stock Yards and a historic industrial district.
The driving portion of our tour includes the Union Stock Yard Gate, the former “Bucket of Blood,” the White Sox Stadium, abandoned factories, art centers, street art murals and a quarry-turned-park. It’s an incredibly fascinating area of Chicago, and we’re very excited about sharing this new food tour of Chicago. Group size is limited to spots on the bus and our one-off tours almost always sell out.
Historic Pub Crawl Food Tour Highlights
White Sox Stadium
Union Stock Yard Gate from 1875
Neighborhood architecture
A variety of food and drink that comprise an entire meal
A quarry-turned-park
Chicago’s oldest continuously running bar
Stories and Ideas
The culture of drinking around the turn of the century
Stories behind each historic bar
Neighborhood characters
Ties between drinking industry and Chicag
More than a food tour with just eating, you will learn about the neighborhood’s rich cultural history through its food. Bridgeport residents have been Lithuanian, German, Polish, Italian, Czech and Irish, and more recently also Chinese and Mexican. For example, we taste Lithuanian bread and eat mother-in-law sandwiches, a South Side specialty that likely originates from soul food of the Mississippi Delta.
For this one-off tour, you will eat, drink and learn in between being whisked from one experience to another on a luxury coach for three hours. Stops at casual neighborhood bars include architectural history and fascinating stories culled from family lore from barkeepers.
The title for this tour comes from a Carl Sandburg poem. His phrase “big shoulders” has come to commonly refer to the city’s laboring roots. Bridgeport is Chicago’s oldest neighborhood, and located just north of the former Union Stock Yards and a historic industrial district.
The driving portion of our tour includes the Union Stock Yard Gate, the former “Bucket of Blood,” the White Sox Stadium, abandoned factories, art centers, street art murals and a quarry-turned-park. It’s an incredibly fascinating area of Chicago, and we’re very excited about sharing this new food tour of Chicago. Group size is limited to spots on the bus and our one-off tours almost always sell out.
Historic Pub Crawl Food Tour Highlights
White Sox Stadium
Union Stock Yard Gate from 1875
Neighborhood architecture
A variety of food and drink that comprise an entire meal
A quarry-turned-park
Chicago’s oldest continuously running bar
Stories and Ideas
The culture of drinking around the turn of the century
Stories behind each historic bar
Neighborhood characters
Ties between drinking industry and Chicag
Premier Event Photos
People Attending
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