Some 150 members and guests will gather together to celebrate the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s 101st Annual Awards Gala in the main floor ballroom at The Drake Oak Brook Hotel, 2301 York Road, Oak Brook, on Friday, January 31, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Some 125 members of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry and guests party at the Annual Holiday Business After Hours hosted by Community Bank of Elmhurst on December 12.
Jim Paglia, President and CEO of Creating Brand That Stands/In’s & Out’s LLC, presented a half-day workshop, titled “Creating Brands That Stand: Being Purpose-Driven, Empathetic and Disruptive,’ for a crowd of nearly 100 local businesspeople and Elmhurst College students and faculty in the Founders Lounge of the Frick Center at the College on November 8.
A recently-elected Nominating Committee slate of five candidates officially began three-year terms as members of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry Board of Directors at the Board’s November 12 meeting at Community Bank of Elmhurst.
The Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry Board of Directors elected two officers and approved one appointment for its six-member Executive Committee for 2020 at its regular monthly meeting held November 12 in the Hammersmith Community Room at Community Bank of Elmhurst.
Dan Roesch, President of Larry Roesch Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Elmhurst, is among a select group of 49 automobile dealers across the country nominated for the 2020 TIME Dealer of the Year Award, which will be announced at the 103rd Annual National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show in Las Vegas on February 15, 2020.
Ralph P. Pechanio, Treasurer for the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s Board of Directors, received an Elmhurst College Founders Medal on October 25 in recognition of his 15 years of financial support for our Chamber’s student intership partnership with the College, including his endowment of a student internship fund named in his honor.
Some 400 chamber of commerce members from Elmhurst and the western suburbs participate in the “Improve Your Business Skills” Multi-Chamber Luncheon and Expo at Abbington Distinctive Banquets in Glen Ellyn on October 24.
October kicks off the Fourth Quarter of 2019 with plenty on our Chamber calendar, including a Multi-Chamber Luncheon, Professional Speakers Series presentations by Itasca Bank & Trust and New York Life Insurance Company, and monthly Business After Hours and Membership Breakfast networking events.
Members of the Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce and Villa Park Chamber of Commerce hit the links for “Networking on the 9s,” ECCI’s 71st Annual Golf Outing, held at Sugar Creek Golf Course in Villa Park on September 18.