Teenage Sisters Explore Chicago On TikTok

Two teenage sisters are behind the wildly popular “Explore Chicago” TikTok account. They share their secrets to social media success.

By Andrea Guthmann
Lollapalooza 2019
Festival goers attend Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in Chicago. Amy Harris/Invision/AP
Lollapalooza 2019
Festival goers attend Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in Chicago. Amy Harris/Invision/AP

Teenage Sisters Explore Chicago On TikTok

Two teenage sisters are behind the wildly popular “Explore Chicago” TikTok account. They share their secrets to social media success.

By Andrea Guthmann
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When two teenage Harwood Heights sisters uploaded a ten second video of a pretty park near their home, they were just having fun during a pandemic. They didn’t expect that three quarters of a million people would end up seeing it on TikTok.

Reset finds out what they love about Chicago and social media.

GUEST: Leen Alqaissi and Yasmeen Alqaissi, TikTok creators