Pacific Excursions sightseeing and bus charters offers unique and professional chartered bus and shuttle services in and around Chicago. The city of Chicago was first founded by Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet in 1673 after exploring the area around the Mississippi River. It became a stopping point for trappers and traders until 1779 when Jean Baptiste Point du Sable built the first permanent settlement. It became incorporated in 1833 and the first boundaries of the new town were Kinzie, Desplaines, Madison, and State streets, which included an area of about three-eighths of a square mile.

 

Now it is a grand business and cultural center with many opportunities for visitors to explore this magnificent city. Pacific Excursions can make such traveling around the city for your group easier for you. Pacific Excursions works with businesses to charter one or more busses or shuttles for your group so the only thing you have to worry about is enjoying your stay in the city of Chicago. Allow Pacific Excursions to handle traveling.

 

Pacific Excursions also offers comfortable, cost effective ways to see the sites with services to and from airports, business, academic, and personal events. Pacific Excursions values your comfort and strives to see that everything is simple and affordable no matter the size of your group.

 

Chicago, Illinois Charter Buses

 

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Pacific Excursions offers  relaxing professional charter bus and shuttle services throughout Illinois. Illinois has seen it's fair of historical events that shaped the people and places of Illinois.  Such events include:

• 1673. Marquette and Jolliet descend the Mississippi, return to Wisconsin via Illinois River and Lake Michigan.
• 1675. Marquette founds mission near Starved Rock.

 

• 1763. Illinois is in area ceded by French to British after French and Indian War.
• 1778. George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia and Cahokia from British. Virginia claims Illinois; cedes land to United States in 1784.
• 1787. Northwest Territory organized; includes Illinois.
• 1800. Indiana Territory created; includes Illinois
• 1818. Illinois becomes 21st state, December 3; capital, Kaskaskia; governor, Shadrach Bond. Illinois's northern border fixed at 42° 30' N. latitude.
• 1833. Chicago incorporated; becomes a city in 1837

 

• 1851. Illinois Central Railroad chartered.
• 1858. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, Senate candidates, hold famous debates.

 

• 1860. Lincoln elected 16th president of United States.
• 1867. University of Illinois founded at Urbana.
• 1871. Great Chicago Fire burns heart of city.

 

• 1933-34. Century of Progress world's fair held at Chicago

 

• 1973. Sears Tower, world's tallest building at 1,450 feet, completed in Chicago.

 

• 1988. First night game held at Wrigley Field, home of Chicago Cubs professional baseball team.

 

As you can see, Illinois has a lot of history within its borders. Allow Pacific Excursions to show you these amazing places and events in our country's wondrous history.

 

For a little more information about Chicago and just some places that Pacific Excursions can get you to, here is just a small list:

Airports:

O'Hare International

Midway International

Chicago-Gary Airport

 

Sporting Events:

Chicago Bulls

Bears

White Sox

Hawks

Cubs

Wolves

 

Local Attractions and Events:

Chicago Cultural Center

Millennium Park

Lincoln Park Zoo

Museum of Science and Industry

The Shedd Aquarium

Wrigley Fields

 

Corporate Headquarters:

Sears, Roebuck and Company Administration Building