Lincoln Park Walking Tour from the Tin Man Statue
2021 N. Burling Street (Tin Man statue, Oz Park — meeting point), Chicago, IL 60614
Age
All ages welcome
Cost
$$
Starting at $32 per person.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved sidewalks through Lincoln Park; approximately one mile total walking distance
Equipment
Photos OK
US Ghost Adventures operates ghost-tour programs in dozens of American cities, with Chicago's Windy City Ghosts among its longest-running properties. The Chicago tour focuses on the Lincoln Park neighborhood — a North Side district whose nineteenth-century history includes the displaced Chicago City Cemetery, Camp Douglas-era Civil War burials, and several documented institutional sites.
Tours depart from the Tin Man statue at Oz Park, located at 2021 N. Burling Street near the intersection of Webster and Larrabee. The route is approximately one mile and the experience runs sixty minutes. Departures are nightly at 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM, year-round, rain or shine. Tickets start at $32 per person, with confirmation issued within forty-eight hours of booking and free cancellation up to twenty-four hours in advance.
The tour is capped at fifteen guests for an intimate experience. Guides wear black US Ghost Adventures shirts and carry lanterns; visitors are asked to arrive fifteen minutes early. The program has been profiled by Choose Chicago and is sold through Viator, GetYourGuide, and Pelago in addition to the operator's own site at windycityghosts.com.
Sources
Julia Porter Park is presented as a documented historical anomaly — the small park sits atop ground that once served as Civil War-era burial land tied to the broader displaced Chicago City Cemetery footprint. Tour narration discusses the documented record of unmarked remains in the surrounding blocks and the periodic surface findings during construction work.
The Alphawood Foundation Building, a former mental-health institution, is the route's principal asylum-era stop. Tour narration covers the documented institutional record and the resident-figure accounts that have circulated since the building's institutional period.
The Red Lion Pub on North Lincoln Avenue is the tour's most-named single building. Patrons and staff have reported phantom footsteps on the upper floor, a young female figure observed near the women's restroom, and occasional reports of objects moving on the bar. The Red Lion has been featured in several published Chicago ghost-tour books and is a longstanding stop on multiple operators' routes.
Grant Hospital and John Barleycorn's Memorial Pub round out the route. The hospital is presented through the residual-energy lens common to medical institutions, and the bar — a Prohibition-era survivor — through the saloon-figure reports common to the city's North Side gathering spots.
The tour avoids theatrical scare effects and is positioned as a researched walking experience. US Ghost Adventures publishes its own research notes for each city, and the Windy City Ghosts script draws on those notes alongside individual guide research.
Notable Entities
A one-hour, one-mile walking tour through Lincoln Park departing from the Tin Man statue at Oz Park. Stops include Julia Porter Park's documented Civil War-era burial-ground origins, the Alphawood Foundation Building (a former mental-health asylum), the Red Lion Pub, Grant Hospital, and John Barleycorn's Memorial Pub.
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