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Team Building Activities & Corporate Events in Chicago
The BEST Way to explore Chicago, IL
Plan a SmartHunt®! These top-rated corporate scavenger hunts are delivered using our proprietary SmartHunts® App technology, available only at Best Corporate Events. SmartHunts® are a unique combination of sightseeing, adventure, team building challenges, and gamification FUN!
Why Chicago, IL For Your Next Corporate Event
The city of Chicago is known for its history, art, attractions, and much more, making team building activities in Chicago perfect for your next corporate event. It’s no wonder it’s home to more than 52 million international and domestic visitors each year. Even though its nickname, the “Windy City,” is usually attributed to cool breezes blowing off Lake Michigan, Chicago is proud to boast ideal summer weather. Either indoor or outdoor team building activities are perfect for corporate events in Chicago at any time of year.
If your corporate group is visiting, team building activities in Chicago led by Best Corporate Events can help turn your trip into one your team will never forget. Best offers over 130 team building activities, for groups of 25 to 6,000, to create the most fun and productive corporate events. Bring your team together for a give-back CSR program that will boost team spirit while helping less fortunate members of the community. We are proud to offer a diverse number of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs that help overseas soldiers, schools, the homeless, children, seniors, and others.
If your group wants to get up close and personal with the city, then a fully customizable SmartHunts® Chicago scavenger hunt would be a perfect choice. Your team will be on the search for the city’s most significant landmarks, like Willis Tower, Navy Pier, or Wrigley Field. If your group loves food, then sample some Chicago favorites with a Foodie SmartHunt or a Food Truck face-off!
With more than 130 distinct programs, your team will experience fun, memorable, and rewarding Chicago team building activities with Best Corporate Events.
Popular Team Building Activities in Chicago
While we can deliver any of our professional development, SmartHunts, or team building activities in Chicago, here’s a quick list of our most popular programs in the windy city.
Bike Build Donation®
Bike Build Donation® has been enjoyed for many years by groups large and small. This top selling bike building charity event continues to resonate with participants as they recall the joy of receiving their first bike.
A Minute 2 Win It!
As seen on the popular TV game show, and adapted for team play, your group will participate in rounds of fast-paced tabletop challenges. The competition heats up as one-minute games are practiced and scored using commonplace items like pencils, plastic cups and a deck of cards. Teams will cheer and have a blast as they vie to be named A Minute 2 Win It! Champions!
Best Corporate Feud
BEST Corporate Feud is a corporate game show event with fast-paced rounds of survey questions specifically written for corporate groups. Our unique design keeps everyone involved throughout the show, regardless of your group size. No matter how many points are on the scoreboard, you can be confident that your participants will score big with this BEST Corporate Feud!
City SmartHunt®
Unleash your team's inner explorer with City Smarthunts®, the ultimate tech-driven scavenger hunt! Work together while exploring with the most advanced team building scavenger hunt on the market. Ready for an unforgettable team-building experience?
Build-a-Guitar®
Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, corporate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to young people. As the name suggests, teams are tasked to build high-quality guitars from custom designed kits. The finished guitars are then donated to teens through schools and other youth organizations.
Igniting Team Performance®
This exclusive training will guide your team through a progressive series of engaging initiatives followed by rich processing discussions focused on high-performing teams. Throughout the program, demonstrated skills are acknowledged while areas for improvement are identified and immediately applied during subsequent activities. Igniting Team Performance® will enhance individual and team performance in the workplace.
Competition to Collaboration®
Our engaging, trademarked training program that highlights the positive impacts of organizational synergy, both in sharing best practices and celebrating your colleagues’ successes. It begins with two sub-teams completing various challenges separately, attempting to improve their own performance and reaching goals for the other team to beat. This is followed by a surprise twist that reinforces the message of team collaboration.
Bridge to the Future
In this collaborative event, teams work together to build an actual bridge that has the strength to support the weight of the entire group. There are two amazing aspects of this project. Each section of the bridge will be an independent artistic representation of your future mission and goals AND the principal building materials of the structure are cardboard and duct tape!
Crack the Case!®
Crack the Case!® is a thrilling mystery-themed team building experience that challenges your group to work together, think critically, and collaborate across teams to uncover clues and solve a final case. With engaging puzzles, unexpected twists, and a dramatic group finale, this detective-style adventure inspires connection and creative problem-solving in a fast-paced, interactive format.
Why BEST
Unmatched Commitment to CSR
We offer more than 20 different charitable team building programs and deliver hundreds of programs every year that create items for donation to local and national charities for the benefit of overseas soldiers, schools, unhoused people, children, Alzheimer’s patients, and more. We are the only team building company with a department devoted to connecting and coordinating with nonprofits and charitable organizations, plus a warehouse filled with inventory for our CSR programs, so we can reliably deliver these materials anywhere in the U.S., on time.
The Broadest Range of Programs
BEST offers more than 120 different programs , including team building activities, CSR, professional development, game shows, and scavenger hunts. We lead the industry in developing forward-thinking programs like Earth, Wind & Solar which combines team building with sustainability, as well as offering the largest number of original, trademarked programs including Bike Build Donation , Build-A-Guitar , Build-A-Wheelchair , Competition to Collaboration , plus our Amazing Chase and City SmartHunts .
Deepest Expertise
We literally wrote the book on team building, Your Roadmap to Successful Corporate Team Building , and then updated and expanded it to help navigate specific common business challenges . And we followed that up with eBooks on Charitable Corporate Team Building and Generational Communication Differences in the Workplace . Our experts are sought-after speakers, authors, and subject matter experts in team building, professional development, business leadership, and employee engagement.
Best Customer Service
In addition to our quick response, in-depth needs assessment , and detailed proposals, we’re the only company that provides clients and destination management companies ( DMCs ) with comprehensive online portals that track all details of their events, from key dates and contacts to local weather updates.
Top Customer Rating
We are North America's largest in-person team building and virtual event company and maintain the highest verified Customer TrustScore in the industry, with a 5-Star rating and over 1,700 reviews.
Widest Geographic Coverage
We can deliver in-person events anywhere in the U.S. with no added travel costs, with experience in more than 130 cities nationwide, as well as virtual programs anywhere in the world.
What people are saying
We love Chicago! Best Corporate Events has created team-building events for thousands of satisfied corporate teams. We have a 5-Star rating and some of the best comments and reviews in the business! You’ll find over 1,000 client comments and videos on our website to assure that you’re getting the BEST company to deliver team building activities in Chicago for your group.
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How it Works
Using a proven model for improving team productivity, motivation, and collaboration through innovative team events, Best Corporate Events strengthens teams by delivering exceptional team building, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and professional development training programs that help corporate, academic, association, and government teams build trust and respect while enhancing leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
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BEST Design
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BEST Facilitators & Specialists
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