Some are mysterious, some are beautiful and some are just plain bizarre! Geoffrey Baer takes you all over the Chicago region in search of often-overlooked fragments of our history. Many are in places you pass by every day. But when you learn their hidden stories you're sure to say "I never knew that!"

Join Geoffrey Baer on this engaging tour program, covering Chicago's historic Western suburbs. Highlights include Brookfield Zoo, Frank Lloyd Wright architectural treasures, and much more He takes you on a fascinating trek through 25 communities including Naperville, Cicero, and Wheaton. So sit back, relax, and ride along with Geoffery Baer as he explores the Western suburbs.

Join us for a journey along our most famous front yard. Chicago's lakefront is unique in the world. It's a seventeen-mile-long people's paradise that belongs to all of us. WTTW's popular on-air host, producer and Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's Lakefront. Chicago's Lakefront originally premiered just a month before the start of the 100th anniversary year of Daniel Burnham's great Plan of Chicago, which transformed the lakefront into an unbroken ribbon of public parks.