CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Chicago Architecture Center, which hosts architecture tours by boat, foot, bus and “L” throughout the city, is celebrating a milestone with its docent program.
Some of the docents had been around since the beginning 50 years according to Lynn Osmond, CAC president and CEO.
“It is amazing. We were founded in 1966 to save Glessner House on the South Side,” Osmond told WBBM Newsradio.
Soon after the architects involved started giving tours and the docent program was born.
"And there's just this incredible passion. What I really like about the docents is we put a new class through every year and they really are almost like a university class where [they'll say], 'I'm class of 76' or 'I'm class of 83.' And they really have this camaraderie about being a class of docents," she continued.
Osmond was a docent herself.
They're celebrating 50 years with a history of the docent program. There are 400 at any given time.
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