Annual Meeting New Tour Scheduled: Chicago Board of Trade
Filed under: Annual Meeting, Education Sessions, Special Events & Tours
Don’t miss out on an opportunity to tour the Chicago Board of Trade. A representative from FCstone will accompany and narrate the tour as participants watch the flurry of trading activity that occurs at the close of trading at 1:15. Following the market close, participants will watch a short movie on the CBOT’s history which explains how the exchange operates and who uses it. Participants will then go to the trading floor and participate in a 20 minute “mock” trading session as the pit broker. Prizes will be awarded to the best and worst “trader.” Register today for Chicago Board of Trade tour as it is sure to fill up!
Young Executives’ Reception in Chicago
Filed under: Annual Meeting, Special Events & Tours
Young Executives’ Reception – You’re Invited!
The numbers of “young executives” participating in the SIGMA network is growing by leaps and bounds!
We’ve planned the perfect opportunity to share information, share your vision, or just share your passion for this industry with fellow 2nd and 3rd generation members and other young entrepreneurs.
When: Thursday, November 12
Where: Chicago, IL, at the Young Executives’ Reception
at the SIGMA Annual Meeting
Time: 6:00 pm– 7:00 pm
Sponsor: Telvent DTN
Attend this reception and give us your feedback! Please tell us how SIGMA can serve you best – we want to know!
See you there!
E-mail questions, comments, or RSVP to Nancy Muskett nmuskett@sigma.org or call 703-709-7000.
Great Tours Scheduled for Chicago – Sign Up Now Open!
The tours for Chicago are all set and they will have something for everyone.
On Friday, November 13th join us as we visit 1154 Lill Studio on Armitage Street. The Studio is known for its custom handbags and you will get to create your very own. As part of the registration fee for the tour, you will have $75 towards the custom bag of your choice. There are over 25 styles of bags to choose from and hundreds of fabrics – you will be able to design a purse that is yours alone! For more information, visit their web site at www.1154lill.com After designing your purse, we will have time to browse the shows on Armitage street – great boutiques and restaurants! Separate sign up and fee required.
Special Event Registration Form
On Saturday, November 14th, you are in for a special treat. First stop is a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio, a wonderful example of his architecture and where he raised his family and worked from 1889 to 1909 – the first 20 years of his career.
Our next stop will be Winberie’s Restaurant, where we will have lunch and discuss the book, Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (a great book that is based on his career and his love affair with Mameh Borthwick Cheney, covering their lives from 1907-1914).
Our final stop will be a tour of Unity Temple – the Unitarian Universal Church he was commissioned to design after the original was lost to fire.
Separate sign up and fee required.
Come join us in Chicago!
Fun Tours in Chicago this November!
Filed under: Annual Meeting, Special Events & Tours, Spouses and Guests
For those of you that have been on a recent tour during the SIGMA conventions, I think you know that we have had a lot of fun – highlights include the Sonoma Wine Country tour and the Painted Ladies tour in San Francisco and the Margaritas and a Mission tour in San Antonio.
For Chicago, we have two great tours planned – the first one will be a trip to the 1154 Lill Studio on Friday, November 13th at 1 p.m. where we will design our own purses – you get to choose the style and the fabric (40 styles and over 100 different fabrics) and they will make the purse for you and send it to you in about 3 weeks – or you can choose from dozens of bags right off the rack and take it with you. Included in the price of the tour is a $75 gift certificate to use towards any purchase in the store (prices range from $28-210). After the purse party, the group will get to explore the many boutiques along Armitage before returning to the hotel by 4 p.m. in plenty of time to get ready for the Welcome reception.
On Saturday, November 14th the tour will leave at 10 a.m. after the spouse/guest breakfast, for a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park house that he designed and built for his growing family. The next stop on the tour will be Unity Temple, a church that he designed and called “my little jewel box”, which is still in use today as a Unitarian church. Then we will head to lunch at Winberie’s where a docent will discuss Nancy Horan’s “Loving Frank” – a fictionalized account of his affair with Mameh Cheney in the early 1900’s. The group will return to the hotel by 2:30.
Of special interest is the opening of the new glass bottom Sky Deck at the Sear’s Tower (which will be renamed The Willis Tower later this summer). Scheduled to open in June, the new attraction, called The Ledge, will feature four feet of glass only an inch-and-a-half thick jutting out from the observation deck. Visitors will be able to see straight down to the city streets 103 stories below. Tickets can be purchased online (tickets for November will not be available until June) and range from $18-33, with service charge.
Please don’t hesitate to call or email me if you have any questions.
Cathi
703-375-0490
