Reviews

Kelli was extremely knowledgeable. She was very engaging. She had a lot of great knowledge about the film side of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. She was also very knowledgeable about John Hughes. Great experience! Thank you, Kelli

Great tour and an amazing guide! 10/10 would recommend to anyone.

A very smart tour! Tour guide was very informative and great communicating with people! We were a few minutes late and she communicated well with us to make sure we caught up with the group!

What a fun and interesting way to spend a couple hours in the Art Institute! We learned things about the art pieces and the movie, in a wonderfully conversational way. Kelli was great, absolutely 5 stars!

Unforgettable invaluable experience!!! Kelli is incredible!!! So kind, knowledgeable, and flexible. She took us exactly where we wanted to go (so we could recreate famous Ferris scenes). We learned so so much about the building, art and movie! An unforgettable and unique experience I would recommend to all my friends.

Kelli’s tour was equal parts informative and entertaining, which made for a fantastic experience. She also took the time in the preceding days to pass on information to make navigating the city easier for our arrival, which was appreciated. We are hoping to do more of her tours on future visits!

Unforgettable!! Book this tour! 5 stars isn’t enough! I took my 2 teen boys to meet Kelli at the Art Institute for the Ferris Bueller tour and it was better than we could have imagined! Kelli is an engaging instructor and my boys and I were instantly intrigued and entertained. Kelli has so much knowledge of and insight into Ferris and the mind of John Hughes. We learned about Hughes’ connection to the Art Institute and the art within it. We even took some pics with certain pieces that mimic iconic scenes from the movie. I’ve been inspired to read more on John Hughes and revisit many of his movies that shaped my adolescence. Book this tour! It’s arguably the best thing we did in Chicago.

Kelli was so knowledgeable and made the tour so fun and educational! I would recommend to anybody from Chicago or visiting. Definitely watch the movie again before the tour.

Insightful, entertaining and fun! I really enjoyed the connections Kelli made between the art, the characters and John Hughes’ intentions.

Kelli’s Ferris themed tour of the Art Institute was fantastic. The connections she made between the art pieces, the movie characters and John Hughes’ intentions was illuminating, insightful and fun. I highly recommend it!

Great school trip! A really great tour that opened up a Chicago spot (the Art Institute) through the lens of film. It made the movie more highly recommended for film buffs or art students or anyone who just wants a fun in-road into the city's history.

Excellent! Such a fun way to see the Art Institute! Kelli did a great job teaching us all about the movie and the art that was featured. And she got us thinking too! Her use of an iPad enhanced the experience. I highly recommend this tour!

We booked the private tour with Kelli and it was absolutely amazingly perfect. My husband and daughter and I were in Chicago from Raleigh for just 24 hours recreating the entire Ferris Bueller day off experience, and this tour was by far the highlight of our day. We had a very specific focus in mind for our time at the Art Institute, and Kelli's tour was 100% aligned to that. Her commentary and iPad resource visuals were really engaging and her insights into not just the art of the movie, but the film overall were so enjoyable. We'd never have been able to see or find these pieces within such a vast museum on our short timeline for the day without Kelli's masterful understanding and reconnaissance! THANK YOU for making our day so perfect.

Kelli is super knowledgeable and we would highly recommend!! We learned a lot about John Hughes and the movie. 90 minutes flew by!

We thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Kelli. She clearly has a passion for and deep knowledge of the subject matter and was able to answer all sorts of quirky questions we threw at her. She was very thoughtful about our experience (e.g., making sure to give us breaks to sit, checking to make sure we were good with climbing stairs, etc.). We were traveling with an 11 and 14 YO and she did a great job of keeping them engaged. And she just has a lovely energy/was fun to hang out with for 90 minutes!

Fun walk through Chicago learning about the city, movies, and history. Kelli had great visuals and kept us warm and dry in Feb with knowing how to navigate underground walkways.

Wow, I loved this program [Black Movie History and Chicago] because it reminds me of how important it is to have talks about classic cinema.