Old Town & Lincoln Park

Old Town was a German village of truck farms and cottages, and after the Great Fire its people rebuilt it brick by brick. In the 1960s the hippies and the comedians arrived, and Wells Street became the place where Chicago learned to laugh. Next door, Lincoln Park was once the city cemetery; the graves were moved, mostly, and the city got its biggest park and a zoo that has never charged admission. This walk takes you from Second City and the dive bar where the comedians drank past a lonely tomb, the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the free zoo to a hot dog stand, a blues club and the theater where John Dillinger saw his last movie. The zoo closes at 5.