Sponsors
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Presenting Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteLed by owners who built the business on long-term relationships and a full-service real estate approach for industrial clients across the country, read more about how Becknell Industrial got started and meet our talented team. Becknell Hard HatBecknell Industrial is a privately held national real estate development firm focused exclusively on industrial buildings, including distribution centers, warehouses, processing and assembly plants, manufacturing plants, research-and-development centers, service centers and other facilities vital to the global supply-chain management of regional, national and multi-national operations. Becknell launched into the industrial real estate business in 1990 when co-founders Dan Harrington and Fritz Hartrich joined forces to build and lease a custom warehouse to Nabisco, a client Hartrich began developing for in the 1970s. It was the first of many enduring relationships Becknell has fostered since. Under the long-term leadership of Harrington, who now serves as Becknell’s Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Becknell’s national portfolio now includes more than 30 million square feet of industrial real estate property, in addition to over 6 million square feet of developable ground for future development. In January 2022, Mark Shapland transitioned from the COO role to President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Dan Harrington. Shapland is joined by a strong team of leaders that include CFO Clay Thelen, COO Peter Shaplin and President of Construction and Design - Craig Kouri.At the core of Becknell’s superior delivery system is our design-build construction capabilities. While Harrington and Hartrich are no longer involved in the day-to-day operations, Becknell continues to benefit from their dedicated construction expertise, tapping into their decades national construction experience. Becknell’s vertically integrated approach takes an experienced team of professionals working closely together. Our executive team alone has more than 150 years of collective real estate and business experience, while the rest of our highly talented staff incorporates a wealth of technical expertise in key trades that include architects, engineers, construction managers and CPAs.
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Partner Sponsorship
Sponsor WebsiteFor nearly sixty years Satco has been the preferred choice for lighting and electrical related products. Satco’s great and varied product offering is one of our many strengths. The availability of thousands of lighting and electrical items from one single source is an attractive quality. It is our constant goal to develop and bring new product innovations in LED lamp and commercial luminaires, connected lighting solutions, smart home products and decorative lighting for residential, multi-family and hospitality markets. Our dedication to our industry, our customers and employees has been the driving force behind our success. We thank all who have contributed to our growth and we look forward to servicing all of your lighting product needs.
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Caribbean King Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteSnyder Insurance & Financial Services is a full-service, independent insurance agency in Darien that has been providing insurance products and investment services to individuals and businesses in over 25 states for more than three decades. With a portfolio of offerings from more than 40 of the best and most financially secure companies in the industry, our team of over 20 skilled professionals customize these products and services to meet the individual needs of every client. The Snyder team has experts who focus on individuals, as well as every size of business. We protect our clients’ assets, incomes, and lives while designing financial plans that help them achieve their financial and business goals.
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Caribbean King Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteWith more than 25 years’ experience in the commercial real estate market, Daniel Chopp is an industry veteran and has established a proven track record. His knowledge of and experience in the local market provides clients with the expertise needed to complete successful transactions. Established in 2005, Chopp Commercial Properties, LLC has an extensive record of effectively guiding local and national clients through numerous transactions. Specializing in sales, leasing, tenant representation and management of commercial, industrial and retail properties, Mr. Chopp is known for his exceptional attention to customer service, as confirmed by his many satisfied clients. Utilizing well established contacts in the community, marketing subscriptions to national commercial real estate multiple listing services CoStar and LoopNet, and its reputation as a successful organization, Chopp Commercial Properties, LLC has become a recognized leader in the local commercial real estate market.
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Caribbean King Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteFor more than 120 years, Hortons has proudly been serving the Chicagoland area, with showrooms located in La Grange and Orland Park, with an extensive dedication to our customers, surrounding communities, and our own Hortons family. No matter your style, the experts at Hortons Home throughout the Chicagoland area can help you make your home uniquely you, complete with the perfect lighting! We are a premier lighting showroom, with a team of lighting consultants and lighting specialists certified by the American Lighting Association.
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Caribbean King Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAt West Town Bank & Trust, we’re problem-solvers. Solutions define us. Our most important goals are to know what’s important to you, what’s getting in your way, and what you hope to achieve, so we can help you get there. Since 1922, we’ve been creating long-lasting relationships with our customers based on old fashioned values and future-thinking ideas. We’re guided by trust, respect, and honesty, and we’re driven by “what’s next”. Whether solutions come from surprisingly innovative tools, or trusted products you’re familiar with, our single-focused purpose is your financial well-being. We don’t just think outside the box, we think outside of the bank, so you can feel unquestionably confident banking with us. West Town Bank & Trust is chartered in North Riverside, Illinois, and retains its operations in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Big Kahuna Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteSince 1987, Visual Comfort has been the premier resource for signature designer lighting. For over 30 years, Visual Comfort has produced lighting with some of the most influential names in design using natural materials or exceptional quality and distinctive, hand-applied, living finishes. We are proud to offer the industry's widest range of incomparable lighting choices of extraordinary quality at a remarkable value.
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Big Kahuna Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteFor over forty years WAC Lighting has operated at the forefront of emerging technologies. Now a second-generation owner-operated company, WAC Lighting continues to elevate the industry in design and manufacturing by challenging conventions and building sustainable products responsibly. While other manufacturers outsource everything from design and assembly to customer service, WAC chooses to design and develop our products and technologies from within. Over the years, our investments in electronics development, research, test laboratories and manufacturing facilities have culminated into a unique and unparalleled world-class brand. Since the early 2000s, we have sourced over 90% of the components that make up our products from within a dedicated factory. As a design-and-build manufacturer, we build long-term relationships with lighting designers, architects, and distributors by solving the challenges they face with creativity and innovation. Over the years, professionals have entrusted us to provide them with cutting-edge technology made accessible to most lighting budgets through a variety of options. Our award-winning portfolio of architectural products, decorative lighting, and landscape lighting focuses on addressing known problems or meeting unfulfilled needs with lighting solutions in commercial, residential, and hospitality settings. With our 5 year warranty, we stand behind our quality LED lighting solutions that are energy-efficient, long-lasting, and maintenance-free. We are also deeply committed to ecologically sensitive manufacturing, energy saving technology, design aesthetics and service in our local and global communities. Join us as we strive for a better and more beautiful future.
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Big Kahuna Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteWe're a "bring people together" company. From our humble beginnings 85 years ago to the global brand we've become today, our focus has always been strengthening and growing relationships—both the ones we foster with our customers and the ones our customers share with friends and family in the glow of our lights.
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Big Kahuna Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteJET Advertising has the strategic, creative, and technical experience that you want in a marketing partner. We can be your Digital or Print Marketing Agency even if you are 3,000 miles away! Our Account Service Executives have the knowledge and understanding that can guide you through our proven process to help you achieve your marketing goals. Our team is known for having the personal customer service of small design agency with the cutting-edge knowledge of a large ad agency. Though we may be considered one of Chicagoland's small marketing agencies, we bring big impact when it comes to advertising and marketing.
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Palm Prince Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAt Busey, we’re a community organization, committed to helping customers’ and communities’ dreams come true. Since we first opened our doors in 1868, we have built on a tradition of close relationships and broad financial capabilities. Looking back, we’ve come a long way in 155 years, yet the core values—dedicated associates, strong customer partnerships and thriving communities—instilled years ago are still the cornerstones of Busey.
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The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation
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Sponsor WebsiteOur mission is making a positive impact in the lives of others through supporting cancer research.
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Sponsor WebsiteFounded in 1992, The Collins Law Firm quickly established itself as one of the Chicago area's premier sources of legal representation for victims of negligent, reckless and malicious acts. Since our founding, our attorneys have been recognized as Super Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, Best Lawyers, and Top 100 Trial Lawyers. We have represented hundreds of clients and secured $904 million in settlements and verdicts for them. For the last three years, we have been recognized both nationally and regionally as a Best Law Firm by U.S. News & World report and Best Lawyers. Only a few thousand firms out of more than 400,000 in the United States earn national recognition.
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A private equity firm specializing in the acquisition and development of logistics related industrial real estate throughout the U.S
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Palm Prince Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAs one of the top 5 largest commercial retail insurance brokerage firms in the U.S., we combine the power and breadth of big-company resources with a hyper-personalized approach that puts your interests above everything else. Our culture of entrepreneurialism, collaboration, and innovation gives us the independence and accountability to create solutions that uniquely match your needs. Because when people come first, more is possible.
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Fireworks Finale Unique Marketing Sponsor
Balloon Raffle Unique Marketing Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteThe CANCER SMASHERS are a group of kids that have all been touched by the horrible disease, cancer, in one way or another. They have lost family, friends, and other loved ones to this disease and they have become motivated to actually DO something about it.
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LPL Financial
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Sponsor WebsitePRIMUS Temporary Housing provides emergency housing, temporary residential housing and handling for living expenses (ALE) coverage to families who have faced disaster. We are the first contact for insurance carriers as they work to handle housing claims for their policyholders, and we become the direct contact for families as they recover from their loss in a new environment.
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteSince its founding, Harrington Law has been dedicated to providing high quality, personalized legal representation. Our firm provides services to businesses, institutions and individuals in a range of complex business transactions and general counseling.
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteFamily-owned and operated, we’ve called Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood home since 1989. Step inside our restaurant, and you’ll immediately feel at home, be treated like family, and understand what keeps our guests coming back again and again. Our expertise is highlighted in our menu which focuses on fresh and quality ingredients. Scratch-made offerings include mouthwatering specialties such as whipped ricotta tuffo, traditional sausage and peppers, homemade gnocchi, and a family favorite, chicken giardiniera. Come in and enjoy a meal with us today. Mangia!
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Sponsor WebsiteInnovations Lighting was founded in 2014 in Westchester County, New York. This new venture is a landmark of my 40th year in the lighting industry. My career began with the iconic Geringer & Sons, founded in 1913, which later led to my partnership with Leonard Geringer, my mentor. From this experience I have learned a simple strategy for success: Create a quality product at a fair price, make a commitment to service, and the customer will repeatedly purchase with confidence.
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Sponsor WebsiteRaimonde Drilling Corporation has been providing drilling services since 1971. Drilling and sampling services include vertical and angle drilling into soil and bedrock formations. These services are for a wide variety of purposes from mineral exploration, environmental investigations, geotechnical engineering, to offshore drilling. Our vast amount of experience combined with the versatility of our equipment allow RDC to engage in projects across the country. Furthermore, utilization of drilled holes by installation of instrumentation or monitoring wells allows maximum use of project funding.
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Sponsor WebsiteIt all started in 1999 – on the cusp of the tech industry’s historic crash. Sanjay Shah saw a void in the ERP market. While ERPs were transforming organizations in all kinds of ways, there was still no solution for managing pricing, trade, royalties and incentive programs that so many businesses rely on to drive revenue. As an R&D leader in the ERP world, Sanjay also knew that this type of solution wasn’t on anyone else’s roadmap. So, he set out to build one. Within two years, the first version of Vistex solutions were launched. It caught on quickly with customers and partners. Fast forward 25 years. Vistex now has 20 global offices and 2,000+ employees. Leading brands such as GM, Barilla, and Bayer rely on the software every day to drive revenue. Thanks to a bold vision, Vistex is continuing to expand with more customers, more products, and more presence around the world. Meanwhile, the charitable initiatives of the Vistex Foundation are making a difference across the globe. Today, businesses managing an enormous number of different pricing, trade, royalties and incentive programs finally have a way to make sure it all adds up.
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteTo provide the best representation in the lighting and home furnishings industry for our customers and our vendors.
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Palm Prince Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAIS delivers a wide range of technology solutions, managed services, and consulting services that allow businesses to compete in today’s market. Whether deploying AIS solutions or other best-of-breed tools, the experienced, reliable AIS team delivers projects on time while streamlining IT services
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAt Horizon, helping people pursue order and clarity in their financial lives isn’t just our business; it’s our way of life. We’re invested in you, your goals, and your potential. Together, let’s plan seriously so you can live fearlessly.
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAt Dimelo Media, we specialize in crafting content that genuinely embodies the authenticity of each of our clients.
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Event Wristband Marketing Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteEstablished in 1987, Maring DeVries Associates formed with an idea that the lighting manufacturer’s rep in Chicago could be a trusted source of expertise, reliable service, and fresh ideas. From this idea grew a business that has been serving the retail lighting showrooms and electrical distributors of Northern Illinois with quality lighting brands for over 30 years. As the lighting industry has changed over time, so too has the manufacturers rep’s business evolved. Re-branded as MDA Lites in 2016, we’ve grown to expand our partnerships, distribution channels, and geographic territories while honoring our core values of superior lighting knowledge, personalized service, and reliability. As the lighting industry continues to rapidly transition into a new age of smart controls, human-centric lighting, & technologies yet to be discovered, we are dedicated to serving the lighting needs of our partners and their clients.
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Centerpiece Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteQuoizel offers decorative lighting for the inspired home through high-quality craftsmanship, thoughtful designs, and timeless style. From craftsman to contemporary, our selection of more than 2,000 fixtures provides beautiful, on-trend options for every lifestyle and budget. Beneath our products' stunning exteriors, you'll find exceptional value. From mouth-blown glass and hand-applied finishes to natural materials and integrated LED technology, every last detail is considered in our pursuit for enduring quality. Our dedication to best-in-class design is matched by our commitment to best-in-class service. Though we've grown exponentially in size, we remain true to our small, family-owned business heritage. Our customer-first culture is evident in all that we do. It is our promise to illuminate your home for the moments that matter.
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CURATED FANS
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Sponsor WebsiteRepresenting the best ceiling fan factories in the world, the best of Taiwan
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Papaya Pal Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteOur mission is to help each patient breathe better, hear better and sleep better with life changing results.
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Best of Live Unique Marketing Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteInfinity Communications Group is a family owned and operated print and sign company. We have a commitment to servicing our customers and our local business community with high-quality custom printing and signage
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Coconut Crowd Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteAt Cherry Bekaert, we provide solutions that drive growth, address challenges and deliver efficiency. We’re reimagining the future of middle-market businesses by activating innovation with digitally enabled end-to-end transformation solutions. In an environment of accelerating digital transformation and rapidly changing economic and market conditions, we are constantly evolving to adapt ahead of shifting trends in professional services and advance as a trusted advisor. We guide you forward no matter the direction you’re headed.
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Bahama Mama Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteOn May 15, 1943, the Bank opened its doors for the first time as the First State Bank of Forest Park. Because the Great Depression had deprived the town of Forest Park of any bank for eleven years, the opening of a bank was received with a robust celebration including a parade on Madison Street. The country was still struggling economically and U.S. soldiers were fighting in the midst of World War II in Germany and Japan, but the return of a bank to Forest Park was seen as a symbol of hope and a return to the promise of elements of the American Dream.
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American Lighting Brands
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Sponsor WebsiteFGMK is a leading professional services firm providing assurance, tax and advisory services to privately held businesses, global public companies, entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals and not-for-profit organizations. FGMK is among the largest accounting firms in Chicago and one of the top ranked accounting firms in the United States.
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Papaya Pal Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteDoran Leadership Partners is a woman-owned, boutique leadership advisory firm. We offer the highest caliber executive search and organization development services in a values-oriented environment.
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Sponsor WebsiteHaving spent the first decade of her career at some of the world's most iconic fashion brands such as ELLE, Marie Claire and Glamour, Courtney's approach to styling a home is very similar to how one would curate their closet - seamlessly mixing high and low, vintage and new with an emphasis on personal style. We believe in upscale yet approachable interior design that is reflective of you and your family's personalities, interests and you stage of life to create a space that effortlessly blends form and function.
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Papaya Pal Sponsor
Sponsor WebsitePreparing for that next step when life changing events occur can be challenging. I have been in the insurance industry for twenty years, the combination of experience, professionalism and access to a wide variety of products and services can help you fill in those gaps to achieve your goals.
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Coconut Crowd Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteOur goal is the same today as it was when we started in 1992: to be the very best design-build contractor in the industry. We use a proven design-build methodology to bring our clients’ vision to life while delivering the very best experience. We have offices to serve clients from coast-to-coast – across an array of industries. Our expert team of in-house engineers, project managers, superintendents, modelers and architects are capable of designing and building the most demanding projects anywhere in the country.
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Palm Prince Sponsor
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Silent Auction Unique Marketing Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteLGH is the industry leader in the Rental of Hoisting & Rigging Equipment. Through 24 locations in North America and supported by over 50 rental representatives nationwide, LGH can provide for rent all types of, hoisting, pulling, jacking, and rigging equipment to meet virtually every conceivable lifting or moving need.
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WiFi Unique Marketing Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteThe Savoy House collection at Lighting New York brings sophisticated style to your home. Shop elegant, whimsical and glamorous selections in timeless styles that range from nostalgic to urban to soft contemporary
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Papaya Pal Sponsor
Sponsor WebsiteWe are a locally owned, full-service community bank with a 100-year history of providing financial services, support and leadership to clients and communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
