Celebrating 40+ Years
The windy city has much to offer besides great food and Oprah. Chicago offers prime sites for team building activities, from the shores of Lake Michigan to the high rise luxury hotels towering over the great Midwest city. As the nation’s leading conference destination, Chicago wants more than world class hotel amenities. They seek to give attendees an experience to remember; a way to build relationships and take the message back to work. Venture Up’s Chicago team building programs aim to engage staff in an experience that shows them new ways to view challenges and interact with each other.
Celebrating 30+ years in business, Venture Up has helped corporate leaders build staff relationships for conferences, events and on site training programs. More than 500,000 clients have kept us on track delivering creative team building events every time. Working with repeat clients — 80 percent of our business — drives us toward continuous innovation. Meeting planners are always looking for something different, something new.
In 1983 we went from being America’s first team building company, to the nation’s largest team building provider with programs in the U.S. and abroad. We work with people of all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds; and offer programs in several languages.
Strategic Games is a Dynamic team-building program that is filled with fast-paced problem-solving challenges that reinforce the core values of teams and strategic goals of your organization. Participants are intentionally mixed and remixed across activities, encouraging cross-department collaboration and exposes team members to new perspectives, strengths, and working styles. With every completed challenge, the bar is raised…
Venture Up’s Bike Builder Challenge for Kids in Need is our most popular charity team building event. Teams warm up with quick Energizers, then assemble, decorate, and safety test brand-new bikes for underserved children ages 5 to 10. Each group receives a child’s name and creates a personalized bike and card, delivering a fast, meaningful, and highly rewarding team experience.
Venture Up’s Amazing Race is a fast-paced, city-based team building adventure where teams solve clues, complete challenges, and navigate local landmarks. Designed for all abilities – correctness matters more than speed! Each race features location-specific tasks, and bonus challenges. There’s no better way to experience a city than in this memorable, high-energy group event!
Minutes-to-Win-It and Team Survivors is a fast-paced, high-energy team challenge inspired by classic competition shows. Teams face a multitude of mental and light physical challenges that reward creativity, communication, and collaboration. From indoors to outdoors and small to large spaces and groups, this event is our favorite on-site competitive program.
Escape the Case is Venture Up’s hit conference-room escape game is for groups of 10-500+. Teams organize fractured clues through a series of locked metal cases using clues, ciphers, and clever tools. Fast, high-tech, and wildly fun, with a surprise final collaboration twist to unite the group. Lightly based on the escape room concept but built with 40+ years of professional team development experience.
Game-On Olympics is a high-energy team competition blending creative challenges, problem-solving, and friendly rivalry. Teams face off across multiple stations, earning points as they compete for medals and recognition. Designed for indoor or outdoor spaces, the event features a fun opening ceremony and a down-to-the-wire finish before Bronze, Silver, and Gold claim their podium.
Mega Car 500 is a high-energy engineering challenge where teams design, build, and race life-size, human-powered vehicles with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, groups collaborate to create functional cars that must carry a teammate through a competitive course. The experience builds to a crowd-cheered race and awards ceremony, delivering creativity, collaboration, and bragging rights.
Team Survivor | Minutes-to-Win-It delivers nonstop action through short, engaging challenges that test problem-solving, teamwork, and adaptability. Teams stay intact as they rotate through a series of mental, creative, and light physical challenges, earning points with every success. Designed to reward ingenuity, communication, and collaboration this flexible event is a blast for competitive teams.
Mega Boat Regatta is a high-energy build-and-race challenge where teams design and construct life-size, human-powered boats with no instructions and no preset solutions. Using provided materials, and no-instructions teams collaborate to create water-worthy vessels before racing them head-to-head. The experience is unique, fun and rewarding for racers and spectators alike.
Venture Up staff return calls from Chicago immediately and deliver proposals within a few hours of contact. We work on short notice, or plan months ahead. You can expect us to handle the details and stay in touch, so you have the peace of mind and the freedom to tend to other matters of your team building event. Our aim is to exceed your expectations, and history shows we can.
About 80 percent of our Chicago team building business involves corporate clients, who prove that word of mouth is the greatest advertising. We also work with many government and non-profit groups; school districts, charities, and federal agencies, such as the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Special Forces.
Many of our team building clients are also winners of the J. D. Power & Associates Award — and J. D. Power & Associates itself is on our client list. Venture Up also has a long-standing track record working with Fortune 100 firms, and with people of all shapes, sizes, physical 
abilities and cultural backgrounds. Team Building groups range in sizes range from 8 to 1,000 or more. US Duns # 148821721
Top Chicago companies use team building events to bring their teams into more cohesive units, and have great fun doing it with strategic games like Escape The Case, Minutes to Win It, and Team Survivor, charity events like Bike Building and Bionic Hands Building, and just plain fun games like Mega Boat Regatta, and Human Foosball. And don’t forget the tried and true Cognitive Diversity Training, with a meeting of the minds in Chicago.
Don’t forget why we game. The most important thing about Venture Up games are they are fun. They are lessons disguised as games, and because they are enjoyable, groups are more confident to take those lessons to heart and are encouraged them to lean on each other for whatever lies ahead. Is your Chicago team ready? Give us a call at 888.305-1065 or 312-224-8092.
