Give your attendees and VIPs a unique gift to remember their meeting or event experience in Chicago. From customized baskets filled with city-themed treats to sweets from local bakeries and apparel emblazoned with your branding, planners will find a great selection of quintessential Chicago gifts.
Gift baskets and boxes
Give bags or tins of sweet-and-salty snacks from Chicago’s iconic Garrett Popcorn. Fans have savored their classic popcorn flavors like CarmelCrisp and CheeseCorn since 1949. Opt for the popular Garrett Mix that combines cheesy cheddar and buttery caramel. Or, choose three different flavors and build your own tin that can include a company logo or message.
Peruse a variety of gift ideas from Chicago Teahouse, offering an array of loose-leaf teas, seasonal flavors, and tea collections. The Chicago Favorite Sampler includes Scottish Breakfast, the Windy City signature blend, and Earl Grey teas. Gift items also include tea-based candies like Matcha Marshmallows, mugs, infusers, and tea sets.
Select Chicago-themed gifts to fill the customized baskets prepared by BasketWorks. Choices include a collection of Chicago snack foods, locally made sweets, and an assortment of items featuring your choice of the city’s pro sports teams. Personalize the baskets with your event’s colors and logos for a one-of-a-kind gift.
Let a Here Here Market chef curate your custom gift basket as a delicious reminder of your meeting or event. Shop by cuisine type, ingredients, and activities like baking, snacking, and grilling. Or, simply pick eight items, like The Original Chicago Sauce, Monteverde Gnocchetti Pasta, and Chicago Sport Peppers.
A bar snack that’s wildly popular at Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse in River North is a perfect Chicago-made gourmet gift. Holy Cow!® Potato Chips are kettle-cooked daily at the restaurant, which is a longtime favorite of Chicago Cubs baseball fans. The all-natural, vegan, and gluten-free chips, made with russet potatoes, come in Original, Everything, and BBQ flavors. Choose from bags or a large tin, and add dark chocolate dipping sauce as a sweet treat. Include a bag of the buttery Holy Cow! Potato Chip Toffee as a special surprise.
Sweet treats
Discover a smorgasbord of sweets from Candyality, where gifts can be tailor-made with hand-selected candies and designed to reflect a specific theme or color. Candy styles include chewy, colorful, crunchy, sour, retro, and more. Consider a ready-made option such as boxes of gourmet chocolates, cotton candy towers, or a popcorn medley.
Impress attendees with artisan pastries from Schweet The Original Homemade Chicago Cheesecake. Schweet offers a selection of yummy, individually packaged cupcakes that are perfect for gift-giving. The company’s signature cheesecake comes in flavors like chocolate chip, pecan, and banana pudding. Gluten-free cakes are offered with an oatmeal crust.
Justice of the Pies specializes in sweet and savory pies, quiches, and tarts. Favorite flavors — by the whole pie or slice — include salted caramel-peach, bourbon-pecan, and Key lime. Or, order cookies like peanut butter, lavender-lemon, and double chocolate-cherry. The local bakery offers nationwide shipping.
Sugar Bliss offers mouthwatering, made-from-scratch treats. Attendees will be delighted by their boxes of pastel French macarons in flavors like cappuccino, pistachio, and raspberry lemonade. Arrange for their Sweets Cart to come to your event. Or, Sugar Bliss staff can distribute attendee gifts such as logo-decorated cupcakes or boxes of cake pops.
The new Wicker Park location of Oro Chocolate stocks bean-to-bar craft chocolate made with organic heirloom cacao from the northern mountains of Nicaragua. The fine chocolate comes in several flavors, including dark, milk chai, and ginger. Buy a bundle of five of the most popular bars to create a sweet gift.
Specialty items
Laudi Vidni produces made-to-order handbags, totes, briefcases, and more in its Lincoln Park store. A fun way to engage meeting attendees is through Laudi Vidni’s corporate gifting experiences, which include sessions where attendees are involved in the design process. Order custom gifts like leather luggage tags, passport cases, and golf club covers.
Piece by piece, The Atom Brick designs custom, small-scale building sets using interconnecting bricks. Work with their team to create models that will spread your brand’s awareness through gifts, giveaways, exhibit booth displays, and more. Do you envision a bridge, an airplane, a replica of the Willis Tower, or even an elephant? It can be done.
Combine brand exposure with a cool gift, customized by CHICAGOMIDWESTMADE. Items with a company logo or message can include T-shirts, beanies, hoodies, and jackets from makers like Champion, Dickies, and Hanes. Explore services like screen printing and embroidery at the Pilsen store or view their online catalog.
Choose from eclectic jewelry, art, and apparel from around the world at The Silver Room. The Hyde Park showroom promotes global community and culture via its artisan goods. Gift ideas include books by Black authors, incense, soy candles, soaps, and chakra bracelets.
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