While reading the newspaper for ideas, Fraser suggests seeing Gilbert & Sullivan's Ivanhoe. Although Sullivan wrote the music to Ivanhoe, the libretto was written by Julian Sturgis. It is an opera, not one of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.
The bus tour heads from the Water Tower towards Grant Part, both of which are on Michigan Avenue. On the way, the bus passes the State of Illinois Building, which is several block to the west of Michigan Avenue.