Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studio docent Erin Schettler is shown outside the studio at 931 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, Ill. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times Media
Candy King is a docent at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times Media
Lynn Goldman is a docent who has been leading Museum of Contemporary Art tours for nearly 25 years. She lead a tour of "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity." | Rich Hein~Sun-Times Media
Marilyn Slattery has been an Art Institute docent for 16 years. She is shown in the Modern Wing with Edtaonisl (Ecclisiastic), 1913 oil on canvas by Francis Picabia. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times Media
Docent Tom Carmichael greets passengers before leading an Architecture Foundation Cruise down the Chicago River aboard Chicago's First Lady on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times Media
Erin Schettler has been a docent for five years at the Frank Lloyd House and Studio in Oak Park, Ill. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times Media
Some of Candy King's relatives lived through and died in the Holocaust, but as a docent at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, King said she never brings her own family history into it. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times Media
Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Tom Carmichael said he's especially fond of the river cruises becaue they're "One of the most ego-satisfying experiences that I've had in a long time." | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times Media
Chicago is chock-full of world-class art and architecture that isn’t always appreciated to the fullest — or, in some cases, at all. That’s where trained volunteer docents (tour guides) come in. Every day these passionate, dedicated and learned folks — in effect, our city’s cultural …
