Serving more than 500,000 guests annually, the CAC consistently ranks among the top 10 Chicago cultural institutions. This means that when you sponsor the CAC, your benefits are twofold: not only are you connecting with our highly desirable audience, but you’re also supporting one of Chicago’s leading cultural institutions.

Today the CAC’s mission is more important than ever. We are leading a critical conversation about the role architecture and design play in making Chicago a city where everyone can thrive. With the help of our corporate, foundation and government partners, CAC empowers people to celebrate, protect and plan for the future of our city and our communities.

The Chicago Architecture Center offers a wide range of sponsorship opportunities – from-year long programs and special events, to exhibitions and engagement initiatives, as well as customized opportunities to meet your needs and budget.

For more information, please contact Jenny Seidelman, Director of Corporate Engagement at jseidelman@architecture.org or 312.561.2139 or Jenn McAllister, Manager of Foundation and Institutional Relations at jmcallister@architecture.org or (312) 561-2120.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Chicago Architecture Center offers customized sponsorship and partnership opportunities to support ongoing events and symposiums; exhibitions, tours and public programs; our annual gala; and Open House Chicago.

Exhibitions

CAC’s home on Wacker Drive offers a host of rotating and permanent exhibits, examining architecture, engineering, construction, and design, and the built environment from a wide array of perspectives.

Community Engagement

Our largest-scale community engagement initiative, the free, annual, Open House Chicago (OHC), invites Chicagoans to explore unique spaces around the city that are not usually open to the public. In 2023, OHC featured 170+ sites and welcomed more than 25,000 visitors.

Youth Education

Education programs focus on STEM-learning and inspire young people to engage with architecture, construction, engineering and design. These programs are offered year-round and reach 3,000+ students. Most programs are offered for free or low cost.

Programming

Year-round, CAC offers adult education programming including lectures on unique topics; expert-led discussions on the latest urban design issues; hands-on activities such as designing stain-glass windows and sketching the Chicago skyline; and trivia nights.

Gala

Designing Futures, CAC’s annual Gala, takes place in the fall of each year. Hundreds of individual supporters and members of the Chicago business community gather in an architecturally unique venue to celebrate the CAC and local champions of the built environment.

Join these funders and partners whose support makes the CAC's programs possible:

• AIA Chicago
• Allstate
• Arup
• bKL Architecture LLC
• Bolhous Foundation
• Booth Hansen
• Buchanan Family Foundation
• Cannon Design
• CBRE
• City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
• Chuhak & Tecson
• CIBC
• Clayco
• ComEd
• Convexity Properties
• Cotter Consulting
• Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
• Crown Family Philanthropies
• The Donnelley Foundation
• Dr. Scholl Foundation
• Eckenhoff Saunders Architects
• Edelman Environmental Systems Design, Inc.
• Equity Office
• Forward Space
• Gensler
• Golub & Company
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• HED
• The Hickey Family Foundation
• Illinois Arts Council Agency
• Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
• Jahn Foundation
• JAHN LLC
• John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
• Jones Lang LaSalle
• Julis N. Frankel Foundation
• Kensington Square Foundation
• The Knowles Foundation
• Kohn Peterson Fox
• Kohn Peterson Fox Foundation
• Krueck Sexton Partners
• Lamar Johnson Collective
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Loewenberg Charitable Foundation
• Michael Reese Foundation
• MillerKnoll
• MillerKnoll Foundation
• Moelven Limtre
• Morrison Architectural Planning
• Mortenson
• Old National Bank Foundation
• Orren Pickell Building Group, LLC
• Oxford Capital Group, LLC
• Ozinga
• Perkins + Will
• The Polsky Foundation
• Pritzker Traubert Foundation
• Quarles & Brady LLP
• RATIO Architects
• Redmond Construction
• Related Midwest
• Ross Barney Architects, Inc
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
• Slipstream Group, Inc
• Solomon Cordwell Buenz
• Studio Gang Architects
• Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
• Tawani Foundation
• Tawani Property Management
• The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust
• The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
• Thornton Tomasetti
• Trust for Public Land
• Turner Construction Company
• UL Solutions
• USG Corporation
• Wintrust