At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Coffee Mug Personality Test
At Catalyst Ranch, the first creative meeting venue in Chicago, many of the Ranch hands begin their day with a cup of coffee or tea. We are lucky that we don’t need to stop at [...]
3 Tips to Make the Most of Your Mini-Meeting!
At Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s original creative meeting space, we host all kinds of meetings from week-long conferences to half-day meetings. Sometimes our clients have pre-meetings before meeting with the whole group, and sometimes clients break [...]
Monthly Giveaway Prize: In the Barn Playspace
Here at Catalyst Ranch, Chicago's creative meeting venue, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We’re just generous like that! We have oodles of toys, puzzles, books, and [...]
Chicago Ideas Week 2014: Ink Factory Lab
Chicago Ideas Week brings hundreds of the world's brightest thought leaders together to inspire, connect, and activate the city of Chicago and beyond. Catalyst Ranch is thrilled to be partnering with Ink Factory to [...]
3 Ways to Make Work Fun!
Catalyst Ranch, our innovative meeting venue in Chicago's West Loop, is known for its unique environment. Many words have been used to describe the atmosphere and decor at the Ranch, including eclectic, bright, inspiring, quirky, [...]
In the Neighborhood: 5 (!) Exciting New Restaurants
Catalyst Ranch is lucky to be situated in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Chicago! The West Loop is bustling with tried and true favorites and hip new dining concepts and boutiques. Lately, it [...]
Improve Your Communication by . . . Talking Like a Pirate?
Sundowner events at Catalyst Ranch bring creative people from many walks of life together to exchange ideas and thoughts at our creative meeting venue in Chicago’s West Loop. These events are open to the public [...]
“Fall” in Love: Autumn Wedding Inspiration
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our semi-weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews, inspirations, and interesting Chicago wedding happenings from Chicago’s creative wedding venue, Catalyst Ranch. Halloween candy, apple cider, and pumpkin-flavored everything [...]
September Giveaway Prize: Piperoid Paper Robots!
Here at Catalyst Ranch, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We're just generous like that! We like to keep provide a lot of toys, puzzles, and games [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Coffee Mug Personality Test
At Catalyst Ranch, the first creative meeting venue in Chicago, many of the Ranch hands begin their day with a cup of coffee or tea. We are lucky that we don’t need to stop at [...]
3 Tips to Make the Most of Your Mini-Meeting!
At Catalyst Ranch, Chicago’s original creative meeting space, we host all kinds of meetings from week-long conferences to half-day meetings. Sometimes our clients have pre-meetings before meeting with the whole group, and sometimes clients break [...]
Monthly Giveaway Prize: In the Barn Playspace
Here at Catalyst Ranch, Chicago's creative meeting venue, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We’re just generous like that! We have oodles of toys, puzzles, books, and [...]
Chicago Ideas Week 2014: Ink Factory Lab
Chicago Ideas Week brings hundreds of the world's brightest thought leaders together to inspire, connect, and activate the city of Chicago and beyond. Catalyst Ranch is thrilled to be partnering with Ink Factory to [...]
3 Ways to Make Work Fun!
Catalyst Ranch, our innovative meeting venue in Chicago's West Loop, is known for its unique environment. Many words have been used to describe the atmosphere and decor at the Ranch, including eclectic, bright, inspiring, quirky, [...]
In the Neighborhood: 5 (!) Exciting New Restaurants
Catalyst Ranch is lucky to be situated in one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Chicago! The West Loop is bustling with tried and true favorites and hip new dining concepts and boutiques. Lately, it [...]
Improve Your Communication by . . . Talking Like a Pirate?
Sundowner events at Catalyst Ranch bring creative people from many walks of life together to exchange ideas and thoughts at our creative meeting venue in Chicago’s West Loop. These events are open to the public [...]
“Fall” in Love: Autumn Wedding Inspiration
Welcome back to #WeddingWednesday, our semi-weekly column where we bring you wedding tips, tricks, crafts, interviews, inspirations, and interesting Chicago wedding happenings from Chicago’s creative wedding venue, Catalyst Ranch. Halloween candy, apple cider, and pumpkin-flavored everything [...]
September Giveaway Prize: Piperoid Paper Robots!
Here at Catalyst Ranch, we like to give away a unique prize every month to one lucky Ranch visitor! We're just generous like that! We like to keep provide a lot of toys, puzzles, and games [...]