Chicago Women of Influence
Special Tour at Graceland Cemetery

4001 North Clark Street, Chicago
(street parking along Irving Park Road—no Cubs game that day)

Join CREW Chicago members for a private tour conducted by Chicago Architecture Foundation docents at Graceland Cemetery and brunch/lunch at nearby Deleece restaurant afterward. 

The tour will highlight women who played influential roles in the city’s development as well as women who conducted the Underground Railroad, purchased avant-garde paintings that became the basis of Modern Art, created the juvenile justice system, or broke up a plot to kill President Abraham Lincoln.   These are just a few of the stories behind the some of the remarkable women buried at Graceland Cemetery. 

With doors to professions, business and politics blocked or closed, women had to find their own paths to success. The women on this tour brought the riches they had – whether wealth and status, or intelligence and  energy, or a passion for ideas – and collaborated together to build a better urban environment for all citizens of Chicago.  The tour will also illustrate the influence several of the women had on some of the city’s most significant architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and H.H. Richardson.

Among the women included are early settlers such as Juliette Kinzie and Mary Jane Richardson Jones, an African-American pioneer in civil rights.  We’ll learn about social reform leaders who became one of the guiding forces behind Jane Addams and Hull House; and see how advocates for art and culture shaped Chicago. 

Graceland Tour - $25.00 - CREW Members/Guests  

Followed by Optional (self-pay) Brunch at Deleece, 4004 N. Southport (2-1/2 block walk)

(Menu posted at: http://deleece.com/Brunch.pdf)

Register today!