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Hotels for meetings and events in Illinois

Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center
Hotel · Chicago, United States
300–2,000 guests4 event spaces
50,000 sq ft of event space for 10 to 2,000 attendees, with a 400-guest ballroom, in an 1893 hotel facing Grant Park
Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago
Hotel · Chicago, United States
Up to 250 guests1 event space339 rooms to stay
Adrian Smith's 98-storey tower on the Chicago River rises 423 metres, second in the city only to Willis Tower, with the hotel on its lower floors.
Hotel Baker
Hotel · St. Charles, United States
200–350 guests6 event spaces53 rooms to stay
Meetings for 10 to 350, a 200-seat 1928 ballroom and 53 bedrooms on the Fox River in downtown St. Charles, Illinois
InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile
Hotel · Chicago, United States
Up to 700 guests4 event spaces792 rooms to stay
Built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, with a 14th-floor swimming pool where Johnny Weissmuller trained and a gold dome over Michigan Avenue.
Starved Rock Lodge
Hotel · Oglesby, United States
30–200 guests5 event spaces
A 1930s log lodge built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Starved Rock State Park, with spaces for 200 and over 60 rooms
The Langham, Chicago
Hotel · Chicago, United States
Up to 260 guests3 event spaces
The hotel fills the lower floors of Mies van der Rohe's last American building, the former IBM tower on the Chicago River.
The Drake Hotel
Hotel · Chicago, United States
18–900 guests8 event spaces
Ballrooms for up to 900 guests at a reception and 30,000 sq ft of meeting space on Chicago's Magnificent Mile
Palmer House
Hotel · Chicago, United States
Capacity on request4 event spaces
Potter Palmer's first hotel burned 13 days after opening in 1871; the third Palmer House of 1925 keeps Louis Pierre Rigal's painted lobby ceiling.

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8 hotels in Illinois host meetings and corporate events, ordered by renown and by how fully each is documented. Of those that publish a capacity, the largest, The Drake Hotel, hosts up to 900 guests. Each page has the key facts and a request form for the events team.

Wedding venues in Illinois

Questions and answers

Which venues in Illinois can host 100 guests or more?

7 of the 8 venues publish a capacity of 100 guests or more: Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, Hotel Baker, InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, Starved Rock Lodge, The Langham, Chicago, and 1 more.

Which venues in Illinois list their meeting rooms?

8 of the 8 venues name their meeting and event rooms, with capacities where published: Congress Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, Hotel Baker, InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, Starved Rock Lodge, The Langham, Chicago, and 2 more.

How are these venues chosen and ordered?

By documented renown first, then by how fully each venue is documented (photographs, rooms, capacities), never by payment: venues do not pay to appear and the guide takes no commission. How we select venues.

List updated on November 9, 2026.