Top Wicker Park Gala Venues

Chicago Empanada Mama is a vibrant and upscale, casual dining restaurant featuring Puerto Rican Cuisine. The warm ambiance with live plants and local art creates a welcoming space for special occasions. Their menu includes vegan and gluten-free options, alongside a full bar featuring rum and craft cocktails. Plan your next special occasion or event with Chicago Empanada Mama.

• Spaces for 26-275 Guests
• 2 Restaurants

Drawing inspiration from the globetrotting Beat Generation of the 1950s and ’60s and named after the bohemian hipsters who followed in their path, Beatnik is an eclectic mix of unique furniture, accessories and antiques from all over the world. The restaurant aims to take guests on a voyage through the bucolic splendor of a Mediterranean farmhouse, the colorful opulence of Moorish architecture, and the tropical lushness of Bali with more than 400 living plants throughout the 6,000-square-foot, 174-seat space. In the process, Beatnik expands on the definition of what a Chicago restaurant should and could look like. Mirroring the restaurant’s design aesthetic, Chef Marcos Campos’s cuisine takes a worldly approach, harmoniously melding flavors and ingredients from Asia, Mexico, the Middle East and South America. Once dropped on the large tables paired with pillow-strewn wood daybeds, the mezze and “feast” plates from the open kitchen create an international dinner party vibe.

• Spaces for 18-350 Guests
• 5 Meeting Spaces

Just minutes from downtown Chicago, MxD offers multiple event spaces and advanced technology offerings. MxD is a perfect venue for small or large corporate events that fit upwards of 300 guests, including executive retreats, conferences, workshops, and product demonstrations. The experienced in house events team will help you design and deliver a seamless, high-impact experience from start to finish.

• Spaces for 60-150 Guests

Looking for a unique venue to host a corporate event or private party in Chicago? Our industrial-chic loft in downtown Chicago is designed for high-end experiences, featuring a fully equipped chef’s kitchen, flexible dining areas, and an open floor plan perfect for professional or social gatherings. Whether you're planning a team-building cooking class, client appreciation dinner, off-site meeting, or birthday party with a private chef, this space blends modern functionality with warm, rustic charm. It’s ideal for interactive food events, catered dinners, cocktail receptions, or executive retreats. ✨ Key Features: Located in downtown Chicago – easily accessible for guests Spacious open-layout loft with high ceilings and exposed brick Professional-grade chef’s kitchen with prep and cooking stations Multiple seating arrangements for presentations or dining Perfect for corporate events, private parties, and culinary experiences WiFi, AV capabilities, and optional staffing or chef services available Great for product launches, holiday parties, networking events, and more With its distinctive atmosphere and professional amenities, this loft-style venue makes hosting memorable events in Chicago effortless and stylish.

• Spaces for 50-350 Guests
• 8 Event Spaces

An experiential pop-up bound only by the limits of your imagination. Inspired by a child’s innate ability to transform their reality into a fantasy world powered by nothing more than their own creativity, Imagination Station is equal parts funtastical playground and imagination jump starter! Come discover a world every kid (and kid-at-heart) wished truly existed. Enter an uncharted playground where you can ride with a polka-dotted elephant and spot cheeky, technicolor monkeys. Ignite a brilliant light show with just the beat of a drum. Ride a mythical unicorn blazing across a disco rainbow sky. See human connectivity come to life like an electric spirograph. Share secrets with your bestie via flower blossoms. Explore outer space with a surfing, taco loving dinosaur, and take a selfie inside a ferociously, friendly shark!

• Spaces for 50-80 Guests

Chicago's best small event space for birthdays, baby showers, weddings, and more! Set up and decorate the space to customize your next event. No restrictions for food and catering.

The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) is proud to offer its beautiful dramatic brick arches, spacious courtyard, elegant galleries and other variety of rooms that are available to be rented individually or in combination for your wedding.

• Spaces for 50-75 Guests

Boutique venue with two indoor rooms and an outdoor courtyard. Up to 50 seated, up to 75 cocktail style We offer hourly rate or full decoration packages.

• Spaces for 125 Guests
• 1 Event Space

The Fulton Street Collective is an art gallery, music venue and event space. The venue also hosts a wide variety of events including art openings and classes, music showcases, dance performances and movie premiers as well as weddings, corporate events, lectures and assorted private events. Fulton Street Collective event space is fully customizable to fit your specific needs with 35-foot ceilings, hardwood floors and exposed brick. A state-of-the-art hanging system allows any event to maneuver any time of visual pieces for a unique showing. Complete with movable walls, the Fulton Street Collective Gallery can cater to any event. With 2,000 square feet to work with Fulton Street Collective can easily accommodate events up to 125 people. The venue is located right next to Chicago’s premier event rental company, where you can peruse over 2000 party rental products.

• Spaces for 30-200 Guests
• 2 Restaurants

Boka Chicago, the first of BRG’s restaurants, has a rich culinary tradition over its 10 years. With 4 consecutive Michelin Stars, a Food & Wine's Best New Chef and Pastry Chef already under its belt, Boka Chicago continues to evolve with new Chef/Partner Lee Wolen. Boka Chicago has gone through an extensive redesign with acclaimed design group Simeone Deary. The glass enclosed terrace may be reserved fully private with a three to five course tasting menu from Chef Wolen’s contemporary American cuisine. Full buyouts of Boka Chicago may also be accommodated throughout the terrace, main dining room and front room. Over the past 12 years Boka Restaurant has become one of Chicago's most beloved restaurants. Chef Lee Wolen's seasonal American food is framed by Simeone Deary's timeless design located in the heart of Lincoln Park.

• Spaces for 1 Guests
• 2 Restaurants

The first Earls Kitchen + Bar in Chicago, Earls Lincoln Park at Clybourn Corridor’s NEWCITY, offers a friendly, sophisticated setting to gather for lunch, dinner, after work or for a spirited night out. Enjoy globally inspired food, inventive drinks and excellent service. Earls Lincoln Park’s chefs prepare fresh, made-from-scratch dishes inspired by international cuisines and locally sourced ingredients with a nod to regional tastes including premium seafood, Marine Stewardship Council Certified Sustainable, and Creekstone Farms Certified Humane Black Angus beef. The beautifully designed, casually elegant environment offers a dining area with a relaxed culinary experience, side by side with a lively lounge and bar scene for the game. A 3-season patio with fire pits and custom seating welcomes you to enjoy a drink before a movie or dine out in finer weather. If you are walking down Clybourn have a peek into the world of a restaurant kitchen through windows open onto the street.

• Spaces for 230-350 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Gallery 1500 brings the modern loft atmosphere to Chicago's Lincoln Park. inside our four walls, one of which are three retractable windows that can be open for your event, are polished concrete floors, towering ceilings, and all the natural light you could ask for. located in the NewCity Lifestyle and Entertainment District in Lincoln Park, gallery 1500 provides guests with entertainment options before and after event and easy access for every method of transportation.

• Spaces for 20-100 Guests
• 3 Restaurants

Blue Door Farm Stand creates a farm fresh dining experience for Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The chefs allow the seasons dictate what’s on the table by featuring fresh seasonal produce and ingredients from local farms and farmer’s markets.

• Spaces for 80-150 Guests

The Fulton Table is a chef-driven private dining and event space located in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Designed for gatherings that center around food, the experience is built with the same intention and precision as a restaurant, while offering the privacy and flexibility of a dedicated event venue. Events are structured around a minimum investment and are fully inclusive of culinary, service, and foundational design. From there, clients have the option to elevate the environment through curated table settings, candle compositions, and room styling that reflect the tone of the evening. The result is a seamless experience where every element feels considered without becoming overdesigned. The space is used for corporate dinners, client entertaining, wedding weekend gatherings, and milestone celebrations. Daytime events include executive meetings, luncheons, and brand gatherings that benefit from a more refined culinary approach. As a chef-owned concept, the focus remains on the table itself. Guests are not moving through a program. They are seated, hosted, and engaged through the progression of the meal. The Fulton Table is designed for those who value a composed, food-forward experience in a private setting.

Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba!, Chicago's first Spanish tapas restaurant, serves authentic Spanish cuisine in a warm, hip setting enhanced by lively music. Guests can dine inside or outside on the all-season patio while enjoying award-winning sangria, tapas (the famous small dishes of Spain), pintxos (one-bite appetizers from Northern Spain) and paella (a traditional Valencian rice dish). Offering savory and colorful combinations of vegetables, cheeses, meats and seafood, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba! also features Flamenco Dinner Shows, cooking classes, wine tastings and catering for private parties of all sizes. At Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba! we can accommodate groups of 10 to 300 in our private and semi-private rooms, serving a custom menu of tapas, paella and more. We also offer carryout and off-premise catering including aboard Chicago’s First Lady Cruises.

At the Abbington, we believe in making your dreams come true. That is why we go out of our way to make sure your special occasion is magnificent. Take one look at our impressive architecture and stunning surroundings and you will see why we have been named “The Jewel of the Western Suburbs.” Add that to our finely appointed ballrooms, superior service and world-class cuisine, and you will find yourself in a celebration that is sure to be the portrait of perfection!

• Spaces for 250 Guests
• 1 Event Space

In the 1860s, Goose Island was inhabited mainly by its namesake birds and a few enterprising squatters. Things have changed quite a bit since then, but at heart the island is still a mixture: old and new, high and low, nature and urbanity. Gallery 1028 is a venue that encapsulates that dichotomy well, epitomizing quality with distinction and class while staying true to its roots. We take this holistic approach in everything we do here, striving to produce events that will echo down the caverns of memory for years to come. We host all sorts of events at Gallery 1028, but never lose sight of the fact that each event is unique, that each event is hugely important. Whether it is your wedding day, a corporate retreat, or anything else, we will ensure that you and your guests experience nothing but the best.