Chefs’ Night 2025
CELebrating 25 Years!
Purchase your tickets to join us
Monday, May 5, 2025
Chefs’ Night is our premier fundraising event, incorporating food experiences, heartwarming stories from our members, and opportunities to showcase the life-changing impact your generosity has on the lives of people with developmental disabilities. Now in its 25th year, the event draws more than 600 guests for a night of tasting and entertainment.
Event Details:
Date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Time: 5:30-8:30 PM
Location: Lincolnshire Marriott Resort
Attire: Business Casual
Event Details
The evening will feature:
- Signature tastings from some of Chicagoland’s finest chefs, bakers, and beverage purveyors.
- Celebrating 25 years with members and their families.
- Opportunities to make a difference.
- Car Raffle drawing for the winner of a 2025 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Fastback or $30,000!
Can’t make it to Chefs’ Night?
Make a donation today!
CEL’s primary support comes from the community. Help us enrich the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities by maximizing their opportunities for personal success, fun, and friendship, employment, community involvement. YOU can transform a life with your gift.
Over $8.3 Million Raised to Empower CEL Members to Experience Life’s Possibilities. Thank You!
25 years of Chefs’ Night is approximately
Sponsorship and tasting partner opportunities are available
- Sponsorship packages range from $500 to $25,000, come with a variety of benefits, and can be tailored to meet your company’s needs.
- Tasting Partner Opportunities! Do you or someone you know own/manage a restaurant, bakery, brewery, distillery or winery? Find out how you can become an official Chefs’ Night Tasting Partner!
2025 Tasting Partners
Win this Car!
The grand prize drawing for CEL’s annual car raffle takes place at Chefs’ Night! Buy your chance to win a 2025 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Fastback or $30,000. Winner need not be present to win.CEL’s primary support comes from the community. Help us enrich the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities by maximizing their opportunities for personal success, fun, and friendship, employment, community involvement. YOU can transform a life with your gift.
Videos from the 2024 Chefs’ Night event:
Thanks to our Generous 2025 Sponsors
Diamond
- Anonymous
Platinum
Gold
Silver
- AB Distributing, Inc.
- Arrow
- Joel & Sue Bersh / AIS
- Betis Group, Inc.
- BTX Global Logistics
- Joan and Bradley Cannon
- CrowdStrike
- Deloitte
- The Diamond Family
- The Family of Jacob Epstein
- Expeditors
- First American Bank
- First Bank Chicago
- Honeywell
- Long Grove Confectionary
- Ma Labs Inc.
- Mayer Brown
- Nadler Financial Group, Inc.
- Ray Nair
- Patzik, Frank & Samotny, Ltd.
- Polsinelli
- Ryan Specialty Group
- Schneider Electric
Bronze
- The Baboulas Family
- Susan and Noel Elfant
- The Hart Family
- JAB Produce
- Kobayashi Healthcare International
- Lakeside Bank
- Liquid PC
- Mosaic Construction
- Keren and Jared Novack
- OneDigital
- Harriette and Ted Perlman
- PetWise
- Proline Options
- The Ripes Family
- Stephanie Slatkin & Martin Irgang
- Stellina Hospitality
- Sunset Foods
- The Swartz Family
- TerSera Therapeutics
Angel
- The Balder Family
- Cherry Bekaert
- Mary & Nicholas Greanias
- Law Offices of Louis F. Cainkar, Ltd.
- The Marty Family
- Ori Shachar
- Signature Bank
- UPS
- Venture One
Photography Sponsor
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