For Travel Planners and Group Leaders

Four U.S. presidents have called Illinois home. This road trip traces their journeys from humble beginnings to the White House. Explore their homes, museums, libraries, and parks as you follow in the footsteps of four remarkable leaders and discover how they helped shape American history.

Explore the newly opened Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. Follow in the famous footsteps of President Barack Obama, the first African American president, and be inspired by his journey to the White House.

From Illinois to the White House, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama both shaped U.S. history, some 150 years apart, as presidents. Follow in the footsteps of these remarkable men and see how Illinois influenced their paths to the nation’s highest office by exploring historic homes, landmarks, and presidential libraries and museums.

Chicago, the city that arguably defined the Jazz Age, Prohibition, gangster wars, flappers and boom times, thrived and survived the ’20s. And like the rest of America, it started the decade like a giddy adolescent, grew up in 1929 when gang wars built to a bloody crescendo and the stock market crashed.

Come spend a day like Mark Twain, leisurely cruising the Mississippi with 100 miles of scenic shoreline and peaceful towns passing quietly behind your great paddlewheel.  Then explore the town of Hannibal, home to Tom Sawyer & Becky Thatcher and their friend Huck.  With your imagination you can travel to places in time, best described in literature.

Here’s a great new luxury tour for Chicago that we know you are going to love.  We have combined several music opportunities with a brand new exciting hotel on Navy Pier.  Let us know when you want to go.

Shop on the Magnificent Mile, marvel at Chicago’s bold architecture during a Boat Cruise, enjoy Navy Pier and the thrills on Lake Michigan, plus a fun evening of theatre.