Escape the cold with the Chicago Pedway
“Chicago Detours updates user friendly Pedway Map”
CHICAGO, IL – Today Chicago Detours, a cultural tour company, releases the updated version of their Chicago Pedway Map, the most user friendly design of this complex system of passages that connect buildings in downtown Chicago. People can download a copy from the top-rated tour company’s website, or guests on the Loop Interior Architecture Tour, which is offered six days a week, receive professionally printed copies as a gift.
The two-page map, which is designed to be printed and folded into a sort of booklet versus viewed online, divides the extensive Pedway system into sections. It includes helpful details, such as where to access the 40-block-long network of passages, the disparate open hours for different sections, and tips on navigating the system.
New to the 2014 version of this map, which Chicago Detours originally released in November of 2012, are more details on open hours, clarification of the newest part of the Pedway around the Aqua building, better distinction of street-level landmarks, and an overall cleaner design.
Chicago Detours Executive Director Amanda Scotese designed the map as a useful guide that would welcome people into using the system, versus intimidating them from it. While other maps of the Pedway exist, such as the city’s version from early 2013, they do not outline where exactly to access the Pedway, which is one of the most confusing aspects of the system.
“I found from the guests on our Loop Interior Architecture Tour that lots of people are not nearly as nosy as I am!” Scotese explains, “While I am used to just walking into downtown places that I know are open to the public, like building lobbies, people who don’t live or work in downtown Chicago may not so naturally step inside. By marking all stairways and entrances to buildings and passages that connect with the Pedway, our map explicitly delineates where people are permitted to enter buildings.”
The Chicago Pedway system extends more than 40 blocks to connect close to 50 buildings, train stations and underground parking structures. More information about the Chicago Pedway System can be found on the Chicago Detours Blog.
About Chicago Detours
Chicago Detours is a team of educators, historians, artists and storytellers, founded by Amanda Scotese, who honed her skills as a tour professional during the several years she has worked as a tour guide and guidebook researcher with the travel company of Rick Steves. Scotese studied architecture, urbanism, and art history through her interdisciplinary M.A. in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. The creative tour company blogs about Chicago architecture and history at blog.chicagodetours.com.
For additional information:
Amanda Scotese
312.350.1131
info@chicagodetours.com
www.chicagodetours.com
