As a meeting venue, Loft on Lake was the ideal choice to host Yelp’s first ever #Yelptownhall, a community town hall-style meeting for business owners across the city. Last week, Loft on Lake hosted close to 100 business owners who came to hear and speak to Yelp community managers, to ask questions and share their [...]
Loft on Lake recently hosted Chefs in America for their “Chefs’ Summit” – a tradeshow that featured a handful of corporate vendors who had the opportunity to meet and speak with restaurant owners from across Chicago. Planned to coincide with the National Restaraunt Association (NRA) Show at McCormick Place, this was a casual day-time affair that [...]
As far as corporate event venues, Loft on Lake is pretty unique – we’re a bit biased of course, but the space is flexible and adaptable enough that even though it’s the same space, no two events look alike. So when Jameson needed to create a complete branded experience for close to 300 bartenders and [...]
Loft on Lake is lucky to work with all the best Chicago wedding vendors – even chocolatiers. Katherine Duncan is known not only within the wedding world, but all across Chicago as the maker of some of the finest chocolate you will ever taste. She founded Katherine Anne to make truffles and caramels made only from [...]
Although our list of preferred caterers is already a long one, we were glad to accept Harry Caray’s Catering & Events to our list. A renowned Chicago landmark, the Harry Caray’s restaurants – especially their flagship original location in the River North area, are well known in the city for exceptional service and excellent, high-quality [...]
Being a photo studio, other than weddings and private events, the Loft also hosts an endless array of shoots of all kinds and sizes for clients all across Chicago. Just last week, the Loft hosted a video shoot that was a first for the space – Victory Records came to the Loft to film the [...]
Wedding Season is in full swing here at the Loft – every weekend from now until 2013 brings at least one wedding, reception or event. Our latest was a whimsical and unique wedding – an elegant affair that wasn’t stuffy. It was a creative DIY loft wedding & reception perfect for this unique Chicago event [...]
Our first wedding of the 2012 Wedding Season was a stunning affair. An elegant ceremony and reception for 170 guests, the couple assembled a stellar cast of vendors who came together & transformed the space into something magical. Vitaliy booked the event exactly a year before the big day at the end of March of [...]
Last Friday was the official start of our wedding season – with the first wedding and ceremony of the year. Over the past few months, we’ve hosted all sorts of corporate events – book launches, award shows, trade shows but we do love our weddings – it’s great seeing them come together, and seeing couples [...]
The Loft recently hosted a mini tradeshow, coinciding with the larger Housewares Show downtown. A number of vendors set up booths and displays to display their most recent wares. The show was a success – with amazing work thanks to catering by Amazing Edibles. Now we’re getting into wedding season – so keep an eye [...]