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Keep your meeting attendees healthy and happy with these wellness-focused activities and vendors. Make wellness a part of your meeting in Chicago. We’ve got great ideas for activities like group fitness classes and yoga sessions, along with healthy catering options, that are sure to give your event an invigorating boost. ACTIVITIES PTN Wellness can bring its Relaxation Stations to your conference or event and provide relaxing on-site chair massages. Or hire a trained fitness instructor to lead your group of up to 400 people on guided walks along the Chicago Riverwalk or 5K runs on Lake Michigan and through Millennium Park. PTN also offers group fitness classes that can include anything from wake-up stretches and meditation to Zumba or Pilates. Spa In Your Space is a full-service mobile spa that offers a variety of unique self-care experiences to make your event a memorable one. Popular options include express nail and facial stations, an oxygen bar, beauty and brow bar, and create-yourown fragrance bar. Fit Tours Chicago combines sightseeing and group fitness to create the ultimate Chicago exercise experience. Take attendees on the Chicago 5K Fun Run, a casually paced running tour that passes iconic attractions such as “The Bean” in Millennium Park and Buckingham Fountain. Or sign up for the Chicago River Yoga Walk, with stops for stretches and meditative exercises along the Chicago Riverwalk. Take your group to Haji Healing Salon, with a staff of teachers, healers, and mystics who conduct community reiki and acupuncture, as well as yoga classes. Its inhouse apothecary sells organic herbs, incense, smudges, and a locally made line of natural skin and hair care products. Book your group into The Hotel at Midtown, located on the fourth and fifth floors of the Midtown Athletic Club in Bucktown. The 55-room boutique hotel features a variety of meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 200 attendees. A special perk for hotel guests is complimentary access to Midtown Athletic Club’s hundreds of group exercise classes, including daily yoga, Pilates, and barre classes. CATERERS Exquisite Catering & Events specializes in made-from-scratch cultural cuisine. The caterer partners with Urban Growers to help educate guests on how to use the products they grow. Exquisite 501 is a private venue available for hosting events or vendor pop-ups, with a special focus on promoting Black businesses. Limelight Catering embraces a socially responsible farm-to-table ethos, incorporating local and sustainable ingredients in its dishes. As one of the first green caterers in Chicago, Limelight was a pioneer in the conscious catering movement, installing the city’s first green commercial dishwashing system and purchasing renewable energy credits. The women-owned Food For Thought Catering Group is Green Seal certified and puts a focus on dishes that are ethically sourced and sustainable, using ingredients such as cage-free eggs and responsibly caught seafood. The caterer operates Mae District, a historic Motor Row venue near McCormick Place that accommodates up to 400 guests. Blue Plate Catering, one of Chicago’s early green caterers, is certified by the Green Restaurant Association. Earth-friendly practices at Blue Plate include the composting of food scraps and recycling cooking oil into biodiesel. Blue Plate also uses Green Seal-certified paper products and cleaning supplies. Plan a meeting or event at Larkin Hall, Blue Plate’s state-of-the-art venue that features indoor and outdoor spaces. The Paramount Group offers event and catering services, and is certified by the Green Restaurant Association. Paramount recently moved its headquarters to a new campus in the Avondale neighborhood. Its onsite Eden restaurant serves seasonal cuisine made with vegetables and herbs grown in its own greenhouse, with an outdoor patio overlooking the Chicago River. Treat your group to an educational Afro- Caribbean foodie experience with Cocoa Chili Restaurant & Catering. Cocoa Chili’s mission is to diminish the effects of exclusion by using delicious food as the catalyst to spark learning, encourage conversation, ignite creativity, and evoke innovation. Specialties include Jamaican jerk chicken and Puerto Rican rice. Growing up with a love for the Southern cooking of her grandmother and godmother, Chef Jamie has put her heart and soul into Lizzy J. Her catering business serves up comfort foods like shrimp and grits and sweet potato waffles and chicken, sided with homemade sweet tea.
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