![]() ![]() ![]() He grew up on Chicago’s Northwest Side, and by the time he was in his teens, he was a frequent customer of the Chicago Transit Authority and an explorer of the city’s neighborhoods. Sullivan’s love for the city is deeply rooted. “I want people to get to know the city, and I want them to leave loving it,” said Sullivan, a 1967 Elmhurst graduate. The Chicago Tribune has praised the company’s bespoke tours as an alternative to the city’s many “cookie-cutter, large-group excursions” and called Sullivan “a natural and energetic storyteller.” The company offers customized walking tours in the Loop, Wrigleyville, Chinatown, Little Italy and other neighborhoods, with specialized tours on architecture, Tiffany glass, public art and the food of Pilsen. Now in the midst of a second career, as the founder and owner of Walk Chicago Tours, he offers lessons in Chicago history to an ever-changing assemblage of tourists and visitors. He had been at it for more than three decades, teaching English and coaching baseball, first at Fenton High School in Bensenville, then for 30 years at Lyons Township in LaGrange.īut even in what was supposed to be his retirement, Sullivan has found teaching a hard habit to break. When Terry Sullivan closed the door on his Lyons Township High School classroom for the final time in 2000, he thought he was finished with teaching. Decem| by the Office of Marketing and Communications ![]()
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