Make the most of your partnership. Choose Chicago offers a variety of opportunities and unique events throughout the year to help make the most of your partnership and grow your business.
Choose Chicago partner events and opportunities include:
Annual Partner Showcase
New partners are invited to showcase their businesses in a trade show format, building awareness of their products and services among Choose Chicago departments and industry professionals such as Destination Management Companies (DMCs), local meeting and event planners, Choose Chicago meeting clients, concierges, and key sales and marketing professionals.
Partner Educational and Networking Events
Our educational and networking events are designed to help Choose Chicago partners grow professionally and develop valuable industry relationships. Learn about the latest industry trends, unique marketing opportunities, and successful marketing practices to help boost your business.
Quarterly All For The Love of Chicago Roundtable Events
All for the Love of Chicago Roundtable events bring together marketing and communications leaders from Choose Chicago partner organizations to align messaging, strengthen relationships, and elevate the stories that showcase Chicago at its best. These candid conversations are hosted at premier venues across the city and focus on the ideas shaping Chicago’s narrative.
Future Proofing Chicago
These quarterly events are designed to bring hotel and venue partners together with the broader meetings and events community for open, collaborative dialogue. These curated programs will focus on sharing timely industry insights, exchanging perspectives, and gathering actionable feedback to strengthen Chicago’s position as a leading meetings destination.
Chicago Restaurant Week
Chicago Restaurant Week is a Choose Chicago partnership program designed to promote the restaurant industry and drive traffic to participating restaurants during a typically slow time of year. For 17 days, diners can enjoy prix fixe menus for lunch and dinner throughout the city and surrounding suburbs.
Chicago Restaurant Week features a First Bites Bash kick-off event, and is promoted by means of a fully integrated marketing campaign that includes print, television, radio, digital, out-of-home, social media, and media relations.
Learn how you can participate in Chicago Restaurant Week
Choose Chicago Summit
Designed for hotel partners, cultural institutions, and tourism stakeholders, the Choose Chicago Summit connects attendees to data-driven insights and the latest tourism trends.
Annual Meeting of Partnership
Together with leaders from across Chicago’s tourism, hospitality, and civic communities, you’ll learn about recent initiatives as well as key insights and outcomes from the previous year. More importantly we’ll look ahead and focus on what’s next for Chicago’s visitor economy and how we collectively build momentum for a strong and ambitious future.
