Chicago Trolley & Double Decker

Specialties

We feature our famous «hop on hop off» tour year-​round, stopping and starting at twelve different attractions downtown. From May through September, we also offer neighborhoods tours and a night tour as part of your ticket package.

Not only are we the largest tourism transportation company in Chicago, but we also drive for more than five thousand private events for locals each year all over downtown, the suburbs, and throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. We provide festive and unique transportation for company outings, weddings, convention shuttles, school tours, parades, and parties.

We also run two gift shops, Park Shop in Millennium Park and Explore Store in the Block 37 mall at 108 N. State. Both stores have attraction tickets, clothes, souvenirs, and memorabilia focusing on Chicago. We’re all over Chicago and we love it!

History

Established in 1994.

In 1994, three friends started a tour company by buying one trolley and hiring a few tour guides. Twenty-​one years later, we have forty trolleys and twenty-​seven double decker buses. Our staff has grown to over a hundred tour guides, as well as two hundred more staff members in sales, maintenance, driving, and management.

The President’s staff used twenty-​five trolleys for both election nights in 2008 and 2012. President Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative used sixteen trolleys for their local event in 2013. Mayor Richard M. Daley and his family rode in one of our trolleys every year in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Current Mayor Rahm Emanuel rode in our trolley in the Little League World Series Parade. The Blackhawks used ten trolleys and ten double deckers for BOTH Stanley Cup Parades. We were the only vehicles in the White Sox World Series Parade. And we’ve driven many events for the Bears, Bulls, and Cubs. But our small events and individual passengers make us the happiest.