"Took one of the boat tours through Chicago....."
You probably took the same one I went on a number of years ago (pre-Trump Tower)...and I advise anyone visiting the Windy City to do the same. Fare is around $30 and is worth every dollar, believe me...an amazing experience.
This Chicago boat tour is one of the most-booked tours in the U.S., ranking right up there numbers-wise with the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam and the Statue of Liberty tours! And with good reason.
On your comfortable boat which snakes through the heart of the city, you get breathtaking views of the city's famous architecture, including more than forty notable and historic buildings.
What I enjoyed also was the up-close view of the activity and scenery along each bank of the river as we went by. No messy "waterfront" sites, everything landscaped, developed and interesting. The individual skyscrapers and other buildings were fronted on their riversides by outdoor cafes, gardens, sculptures and many other scenes of interest to give the folks on the boat a series of vignettes on a smaller and more intimate scale.
Everyone planning to visit Chicago should book a seat on one of these river boats....I guarantee you a breathtaking visual adventure!
At the end of the tour, we disembarked by a top-notch restaurant where we enjoyed a delicious brunch on a riverside patio....and while we ate we were watching other tour boats going by filled with people watching us!
Leni
Took one of the boat tours through Chicago when the Trump Tower was going up and, to say the least, the Chicago powers that be, hated it going up.
That little factoid was compliments of the boat skipper. Boat's name was the Seadog. I remember it so well, because I thought, he's (Trump) bringing business to your cesspool of a city and there's no reason for those comments.
Like you said, it's well worth the money to take the tour. Amazing, at the very least!