Your Tour. Your Way.
Taking a guided tour of The Legacy Walk is a wonderful way to immerse yourself into LBGTQ History while enjoying the many restaurants, bars, and shops Boystown has to offer, with exclusive discounts to tour groups. Explore the many touring options for you and your tour group below! We proudly offer multiple tours for groups of 5-25 people. All tours include your choice of restaurants/bars and retail shops. Click here for the Legacy Walk Tour Map.
Rainbow Road Tour
Take the full Legacy Walk tour for a complete immersion into the fascinating and eye-opening history of LGBTQ icons throughout history. Select (2) bars/restaurants and (2) retail shops from the list below. Tour time: 3.5 hours
Individual Zone Tour
Select your zone color (red, blue, or purple) and begin to build your LGBTQ historical knowledge. Select (1) bar/restaurant and (1) retail shop from the list below and enjoy a taste of what Boystown has to offer.
Tour time: 1 hour
Multiple Zones Tour
Select two zone colors (red, blue, or purple) for your own handpicked tour through LGBTQ history. Select (1) bar/restaurant and (1) retail shop from the list below for a sampling of Boystown culture; a perfect day out!
Tour time: 2 hours
Custom Tour
We’re flexible! Tailor the experience to your group’s interest and choose icons from the map in the three zones to construct a tour covering exactly who you want to see. Contact us for more info. (Ask about our evening tours!)
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Participating Businesses
RED ZONE • Cell Block • Horizon Café • Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club • My Fit Foods • The North End • NoteworthyNotes • Salsita • BLUE ZONE • Cupid’s Treasures • Egoist • Forever Yogurt • Halsted Smoke Shop • Lark • Hydrate • Las Mananitas • Little Jim’s/Big Jim’s • Replay Beer & Bourbon • Taverna 750 • Tulip Toy Gallery • The Twisted Vine • PURPLE ZONE • Beatnix • The Chicago Diner • Dive Bar • DS Tequila Co. • The Leigh Gallery • The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge • Minibar • Nookies Tree • Paired Wine Co. • Progress Bar • Roscoe’s Tavern • Scarlet • Seven • Sidetrack • Town Hall Pub • Venicci Pizza • Wood • Yoshi’s Cafe
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Discounts are offered to returning groups for those who would like to segment their tour into smaller parts. Combine each tour with a new bar/restaurant and retail shop to create an entirely new experience every time. Tours begin at 10:00 A.M., seven days a week and can be combined with breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
About The Legacy Walk
Chicago’s award-winning “Legacy Walk” in Boystown is the world’s only outdoor LGBTQ History Museum. This half-mile span of the Northalsted Streetscape features 35 bronze memorial markers affixed to steel “Rainbow Pylons” – lighted spires that define the area as the cultural, business, and entertainment center of LGBTQ Chicago – the only permanent, architecturally defined “LGBT Village” on earth.
The Legacy Walk’s biographical tributes celebrate the contributions of LGBT people to world history and culture. This international and multicultural installation features social justice pioneer Jane Addams; civil rights icon Bayard Rustin; Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; British code-breaker Alan Turing; Congresswoman Barbara Jordan; Puerto Rican education advocate Dra. Antonia Pantoja; dramatist Oscar Wilde; astronaut Sally Ride; author James Baldwin; transgender trailblazer Christine Jorgensen; and two-dozen more LGBTQ heroes who have made indelible contributions to the world we share.
The Legacy Walk is digitally linked to a cloud-based system accessed by smartphone that delivers video and education resources to the user in real-time. The installation serves as the centerpiece of education efforts for bullied LGBTQ youth who come to Boystown on field trips to learn about an aspect history they have been denied.
Visitors can arrange for privately guided tours coupled with dinner, shopping, and drinks to round out a day filled with both LGBTQ cultural history and entertainment – an ideal way to spend time with your friends or co-workers in your company’s employee resource group. The perfect outing. For more information, visit Legacy Project Chicago or call 312-608-1198.
Rainbow Road Tour
Take the full Legacy Walk tour for a complete immersion into the fascinating and eye-opening history of LGBTQ icons throughout history. Select (2) bars/restaurants and (2) retail shops from the list below. Tour time: 3.5 hours
Individual Zone Tour
Select your zone color (red, blue, or purple) and begin to build your LGBTQ historical knowledge. Select (1) bar/restaurant and (1) retail shop from the list below and enjoy a taste of what Boystown has to offer.
Tour time: 1 hour
Multiple Zones Tour
Select two zone colors (red, blue, or purple) for your own handpicked tour through LGBTQ history. Select (1) bar/restaurant and (1) retail shop from the list below for a sampling of Boystown culture; a perfect day out!
Tour time: 2 hours
Custom Tour
We’re flexible! Tailor the experience to your group’s interest and choose icons from the map in the three zones to construct a tour covering exactly who you want to see. Contact us for more info. (Ask about our evening tours!)