Lake Forest venues and what they hold
Lake Forest, Illinois has 3 mapped venues in this dataset. Here is the shape of them, who they suit, and what an event67 rollout costs once you have picked one.
Venues in Lake Forest, by what they are for
Lake Forest has a recorded population of 19,642 (2024), inside the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area of about 9.4 million people.
The mapped inventory is 1 dedicated conference and function space and 2 independent event spaces.
That is roughly 15 venues per hundred thousand residents, which is a dense field for a city this size — you will usually have a second choice at the same capacity.
By type that is 2 event spaces and 1 conference centre.
Conference and function space (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Conference Center | conference centre | not published | 1.9 km (1.2 mi) |
Independent event spaces (2)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ragdale | event space | not published | 0.9 km (0.6 mi) |
| Glen Rowan House | event space | not published | 1.4 km (0.9 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Lake Forest appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Getting attendees to Lake Forest
O'Hare International Airport (ORD) is 32 km (20 mi) out — a normal airport transfer, worth an hour in the run of show on the first morning.
The city runs on Chicago time (America/Chicago). Schedules published in one zone and read in another are the most common cause of a half-empty first session.
Highland Park, Waukegan and Northbrook are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Lake Forest has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- ORD
- O'Hare International Airport, 32 km (20 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−5
- America/Chicago, in September
- City population, 2024
- 19,642
- 9.4 million across the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Lake Forest dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Lake Forest venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
The city is smaller than the market
19,642 people live in Lake Forest itself, but about 9.4 million live in the wider Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
The bill for a Lake Forest programme
A Lake Forest programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Lake Forest programme, since no Lake Forest venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Lake Forest does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
What sort of event fits here
No capacity is published for any Lake Forest venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- training days and workshops
1 purpose-built function space is the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.
- leadership retreats
Smaller rooms suit a retreat better than a hall does, and Lake Forest has them.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
What does an event app cost for a 240-person event in Lake Forest?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Lake Forest hold?
No Lake Forest venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 3 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Lake Forest?
Nothing in the Lake Forest dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Highland Park. For a conference without an exhibition, the 3 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Lake Forest?
O'Hare International Airport (ORD), about 32 km (20 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Chicago; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Can I run a small Lake Forest event on event67 for nothing?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
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Running something in Lake Forest?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.