Navy Pier's Festival Hall hosts trade shows and corporate events on the Chicago lakefront. We build exhibits and event environments tuned to its spaces and waterfront energy.
Navy Pier is one of Chicago's most recognizable destinations, a lakefront landmark that draws millions of visitors a year, and its Festival Hall and event spaces make it a distinctive venue for trade shows, consumer expositions, and corporate events alike. Exhibiting or activating at Navy Pier is different in character from McCormick Place: the setting is energetic and consumer-facing, the audience is often broader and more public, and the waterfront location lends a sense of occasion that branded environments can lean into. We build exhibits and event environments tuned to Navy Pier's spaces and that energy. For trade shows and expositions held in Festival Hall, the Pier's large exhibition space, we design conventional stands, inline and island, with the same in-house graphics, modular and custom-fabricated rental systems, and full-service install that we bring to any Chicago venue, while accounting for Festival Hall's specific docks, ceiling, and load-in flow. For corporate events, activations, and branded experiences, which Navy Pier hosts frequently given its setting, we design more experiential environments, branded stages, hospitality and lounge builds, product showcases, photo moments, and immersive brand spaces that take advantage of the venue's character and views. In both cases we coordinate install, dismantle, and freight against Navy Pier's venue requirements and the show or event organizer, and we design every build to crate and install efficiently so the program stays predictable and on budget. Our graphics are produced in-house using silicone edge fabric and dye-sublimation so brand imagery stays vivid under the venue's lighting and in the content your team and the public will capture in such a photogenic setting. Because Navy Pier events range from public consumer expos to invitation-only corporate experiences, we tune the balance of merchandising, demonstration, hospitality, and brand theater to your specific goals and audience. As with all our work, the program is delivered as a rental built on reusable systems, which keeps a major asset off your balance sheet, removes storage and maintenance burden, and lets you refresh the design for future events while we refurbish and store the hardware. Whether you are exhibiting in a Festival Hall show or staging a lakefront corporate activation, we deliver the full program, design, fabrication, graphics, install, and logistics, from a free 48-hour 3D rendering through dismantle. Request your rendering and we will design a Navy Pier presence that makes the most of the lakefront.
Navy Pier on the Chicago lakefront hosts trade shows, consumer expos, and corporate events, primarily in Festival Hall, its large exhibition space. Its waterfront setting and downtown energy make it popular for consumer-facing shows and branded corporate experiences.
Yes. We build traditional trade show stands for Festival Hall expos as well as branded environments, stages, and hospitality builds for corporate events and activations, all tuned to Navy Pier's spaces and load-in realities.
Yes. We coordinate install, dismantle, and freight against Navy Pier's venue requirements and the show or event organizer, and we design exhibits that crate and install efficiently in its spaces.
Call Chicago Exhibits at (872) 369-0187 for a free 48-hour 3D rendering. Serving Chicago and McCormick Place since 2014.