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01/05/2025

Hotel Block Now Available for the 2025 APA-IL State Conference #APAIL25

Let’s talk about your plans for fall…

We can think of no better place to convene and discuss the latest trends and topics in Illinois' planning. Ranked as the Best Big City in the U.S. for 8 years in a row, Chicago is home to 77 great neighborhoods all with their own story to tell. Join us October 8-10, 2025 to explore Chicago as well as learn about the latest trends in urban planning. We have the best and brightest planning minds creating a conference by planners, for planners.

Staying There

Booking your room at the Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown

If you want to have a room right next to the conference venue at the Old Post Office, the Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago-Downtown is the place to be! You can book your room at the APA rate today! Single and double occupancy room rates are $179/night plus fees & tax.

CLICK HERE FOR HOTEL INFORMATION

Please note, the room block ends September 19th. The APA-IL rate is valid 3 days before and 3 days after the conference (as available).

Take a look back and a look at today...

The APA-IL is excited to invite Illinois planners and allied professionals return to The Old Post Office in Chicago! Let's take a look back on what The Old Post Office was and what it has become. It is exciting to think that we'll be in this building again in the fall!

Video produced 8/5/21 by the development team of the Old Chicago Main Post Office and shown at the meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Aug. 5, 2021. Credit: The City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development.
 

Conference Details
2025 APA-IL State Conference
The Old Post Office
October 8-10, 2025
#APAIL25
ilapa.org/apail25

REMINDER: Call for Sessions & Mobile Workshops

Please consider leading a session or mobile workshop for the 2025 APA-IL State Conference. Similar to past years, the 2025 APA-IL State Conference will offer sessions in several different formats.

While any and all quality planning content is welcome, we encourage proposals that will give your attendees insight into your own planning stories. Maybe it's creative placemaking, an example of public engagement or your own personal planning story. Maybe you have a skill that you'd like to teach your fellow planners. This is a conference by planners, for planners, and it requires all your passion and creativity.

  • Debates
  • (NEW) Small Groups
  • Facilitated Discussions
  • Fast, Funny, Passionate
  • Mandatory CM Sessions
  • Mobile Workshops
  • Speed Planning
  • Technical Demonstrations 
  • Topical Panel Presentations

Have an idea that isn't listed? Email APA-IL Executive Director, Paula Freeze. Let's talk about it!

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

Click HERE to learn more and to submit your idea!

Heading photo credit: The Old Post Office

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