Untouchable Tours in summary:
Untouchable Tours bills itself as the “Original Gangster Tour of Chicago,” a two-hour driving tour on a jet black school bus that showcases many of the city’s most famous gangster landmarks and hangouts. particularly those of Al Capone. Tour guides wear costumes from the Prohibition period and step into the gangster role. Expect to hear a lot of “dees, dems, and does,” as in “dees guys, dem dolls, and does times.”
Direction:
Untouchable Tours buses leave from across the street from McDonald’s “Rock ‘n Roll” at 600 N. Clark St. (in Ohio), within walking distance of most popular hotels in the city .
Telephone:
773-881-1195
How to get to the untouchable tours by public transport:
Red line train to Grand, approx .25 mile walk from Clark and Ohio.
Parking for the Untouchable Tours:
The closest covered parking is available in garages located in Ohio between Dearborn & State and in Ontario between Dearborn & State.
Untouchable Tickets:
Ticket price
$ 30 per person
Reservations are highly recommended and can only be made by phone (Visa or Mastercard payment required at time of booking)
Untouchable tour times:
The Untouchables run seven days a week, and many days offer multiple tee times, especially on weekends during the summer.
See the current schedule on the Untouchable Tours website
Untouchable Duration of the tour
All untouchable tours last approximately two hours.
About the untouchable tours
Chicago is still widely known for its connection to Depression-era gangsters like Al Capone and John Dillinger, even though most of them disappeared shortly after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. That’s why Untouchable Tours, Visiting historic sites from that period around the city, it remains one of the most popular guided tours in Chicago.
And don’t expect the memory paper of a normal guide as the movements progress. Instead, Untouchable Tours extends the fun by having your guides dress up and act like characters from the 1920s and 1930s, and tours take place on jet-black painted school buses.
With names like “Al Dente,” “Shoulders,” and “Southside,” these guides will make sure your tour is highly memorable.
The tour features many hot spots and stories about infamous names from local gangster history. In addition to Dillinger and Capone, the tour features other gangsters like “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, Johnny Torrio, Bugs Moran and Dion O’Bannion. The two-hour tour takes you through the city to visit several old “bully hunting spots” and crime scenes such as the Valentine’s Day Massacre.
So if you have a keen (or even superficial) interest in Chicago’s gangster criminal past, then Untouchable Tours should certainly be added to your itinerary during your visit.
Additional Gangster Attractions in Chicago
Biograph Theater : The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue on Chicago’s north side is the infamous site where, in 1934, FBI agents stalked gangster John Dillinger and shot him dead as he was leaving a movie and targeted agents. Now home to the Victory Gardens Theater , the Biography exterior was temporarily restored to its former glory for the filming of the biopic Johnny Jan Public Enemies . 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago Union Station : Union Station, a hub for the Metra and Amtrak rail lines, is known for the famous shooting scene in the movie The Untouchables . And while the incident was entirely made up by Hollywood, especially the “baby carriage” nod to “The Battleship Potemkin,” the reality and fiction of the Chicago gangster are so blurred at this point that they have made it a stopping point on a “gangster” history tour. ” Canal Street between Adams and Jackson
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery – Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery is honored as the final resting place of Chicago’s most famous gangster, Al Capone. The cemetery is on the outskirts of Chicago, in the western suburbs of Hillside, just off I-290. Besides Capone, there are other mobsters from the time buried there, like “Deany” O’Banion and the “Terrible” Genna brothers. 1400 S. Wolf Rd., Hillside, Ill.
Site of the Valentine’s Day Massacre : On February 14, 1929, seven mobsters were shot and killed in a garage in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood in what became known as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” While it was never proven, it is commonly believed that the men were killed by members of Al Capone’s gang, or the hitmen hired by Capone. The killers tricked the gangsters into letting them in by dressing up as policemen. The primary target, “Bugs” Moran, escaped injury when the “forward” signal was given by mistake early and Moran had not yet reached the garage.
Unfortunately, a site visit is just to have a “I was there” moment, as the original building no longer exists. 2122 N. Clark St.
–Edited by Chicago travel expert Audarshia Townsend
