PLANNING

5.27.26 Luminescent performance at the 2025 Simon National Conference by Liven It Up Events, partially held at the JW Marriott Indianapolis

The Illinois Planners Shaking Things Up

Indy at the Crossroads

The city of Indianapolis, Indiana, just had its best year ever in almost every major tourism metric last year, including attendance at conventions, meetings,...

Bright Endeavors Creates Lovely Scents for a Good Cause

If you’re looking for something special to gift to your attendees, Chicago-based Bright Endeavors is a nonprofit that hires new moms 24 years old...

Snakes & Lattes—Plus Cocktails

Whether attendees harbor deep-seated desires to bankrupt colleagues, have inexplicable hankerings to flamboyantly play the role of Colonel Mustard, or remember fondly their days...

Lake-Forward Gatherings at Shedd Aquarium

Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium along Lake Michigan and next to the Field Museum offers a slew of aquatic experiences and notable meeting spaces. The building...

Pass the Popcorn

Del’s Popcorn Shop was first developed as The Popcorn Shop in 1934 in downtown Decatur, Illinois, by type-printer John Baldwin. The shop was located...

Gilded Age Novelty

Glessner House in downtown Chicago was a single-family residence built during the Gilded Age of the late 1880s and designed by architect Henry Hobson...

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