Group Tour Excursions

To really enhance your NNA Conference experience in Chicago, we’ve created three exciting ways for you to discover our host city. Each Select Group Tour Excursion is offered so that you won’t miss one Workshop or be unable to hear from one of our important speakers at a General Session. Whether you choose to get to know the City up close and personal on one of the Group Tour Excursions planned for Monday afternoon, June 13, or be introduced to the famed Navy Pier and go on board for a dinner cruise along Lake Michigan and take in the City from afar on Tuesday evening, June 14 — you’ll be glad you did.

Participation in any of the Select Group Tour Excursions requires an additional booking reservation, apart from your Conference registration. To book any of the NNA Select Group Tour excursions, please download this form or visit our Tour Provider by clicking the button below.

Please be sure to use the MyConference feature to add each Pre-Conference Program to your custom Conference itinerary. Remember, you’ll be able to print out or email your planned Conference schedule for any purpose – Conference planning, coordinating with a colleague, or requesting approval to attend from your employer.

Accenting Chicago: A Highlights Tour of the City

For a view of what's happening from down in the streets to high in the sky, come along on a narrated highlights tour! You’ll see such marvels as the tallest building in North America and spectacular new construction alongside a few of the oldest buildings in the city as you discover Chicago’s exciting diversity of art and architectural styles.

On your exclusive, customized tour, time will be spent exploring some of the unique, outstanding buildings in the Loop such as Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower–the tallest building in North America), the Monadnock (the first skyscrapers to be erected) the Board of Trade (a fine example of Art Deco architecture) and Mies van der Rohe’s federal buildings. You will also discover some of the South Shore treasures: Rockefeller Chapel, Robie House (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), the campus of the University of Chicago where Barack Obama taught and where Michele Obama worked, the DuSable Museum of Africa-American History as well as the Museum of Science and Industry.

You will travel along some of the 26 miles of uninterrupted shoreline, see Chicago’s inviting harbors as the city seems to rise out of Lake Michigan, and drive past Millennium Park. A special stop will be made at Planetarium Point on Museum Campus for the perfect “photo op” of the city’s breathtaking skyline. Your guide will point out Buckingham Fountain, the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium and Oceanarium, the Field Museum of Natural History and Soldier Field.

Contemporary Lake Michigan Dinner Cruise

Mystic Blue Cruises is the most contemporary dining cruise vessel at Navy Pier. A 500-passenger vessel built specifically for experiencing all the Chicago skyline has to offer, Mystic Blue Cruises boasts three enclosed decks, plus a cool open-air deck. With newly refreshed décor, colorful blue interiors mixed with silver and white accents and a hip lounge-like atmosphere, it's the place to be for a fun and trendy night out in this mesmerizing city. Views from Lake Michigan for this trip are incredible.

Your trip includes roundtrip transportation, evening tour of Chicago featuring Navy Pier, two hour scenic skyline cruise featuring Chicago’s glittering skyline, dinner buffet on private deck, premium drink ticket, insurance, taxes, gratuities, uniformed group escort, and the onsite management and supervision of Signature DMC.