Site Visits
Please use the descriptions below to choose your site visits. Each visit will be inspiring and one-of-a-kind experience. Attendees will attend one Thursday and one Friday session.​
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After each description we include an expected commute plan, such as transportation mode and walking duration. If you have any concerns or questions please reach out to prssadepaul@gmail.com.
Thursday, February 19
McDonald’s is one of the largest global quick service restaurant empires. The company leverages its influence, size, and reach to engage with its customers, franchisees, and suppliers benefiting the communities in which it operates. Their mission is to deliver delicious feel-good moments easy for everyone and serve food to people who feel good about eating. They surround themselves with their five core values: community, inclusion, family, service, and integrity. They’re committed to improving the lives of its people, the industry, and the planet by putting customers and employees first.
Travel information: 20 min green/pink line train to Morgan and brief walk
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Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications.
Guided by our "Fearless Pursuit of the Unexpected," we push the boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Zeno is winner of the industry’s top awards including the 2025 PRovoke Purpose-Driven Agency of the Year, 2024 PRWeek U.S. Outstanding Large Agency, 2023 PRWeek Purpose Agency of the Year, 2023 PRovoke Purpose-Driven Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America, 2021 PRovoke Global Creative Agency of the Year, 2021 PRovoke North American Agency of the Year, 2021 PRWeek Agency of the Year, and a five-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. We have also been recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.
Travel information: 17 minute walk
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Founded in 2011, All Points Public Relations has ascended to the top of the franchise industry’s competitive PR set. With over 70 clients ranging from startups and seasoned serial entrepreneurs to international franchise brands, our passion, personal approach, and professionalism come together to create integrated PR solutions focused on delivering results that build forward-thinking businesses.
Travel information: 20 min brown line train to Chicago Avenue and brief walk
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United Airlines is a major airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and is the largest airline in the world, operating an extensive domestic and international route network. Each year, United Airlines flies approximately 140 million passengers to over 300 destinations across six continents. Founded in 1926 as Varney Air Lines, it has evolved significantly, embracing innovation and sustainability in its operations. United Airlines is committed to providing a seamless travel experience and has a rich history in the aviation industry.
We are committed to excellence, meeting high standards and fostering a culture that creates pride for our people, customers, commercial partners, and communities, and are always looking to build upon our impactful work.
Travel information: 13 minute walk
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MSL is the most powerful influence engine for brands, companies and leaders. We are an award-winning global public relations firm focused on building influence to deliver meaningful impact for our clients' businesses and our world. With 2,000 talented team members in more than 100 cities across the world and a legacy spanning 50+ years, we create superior offerings, propel business forward and accelerate transformation. We are deeply committed to values-based leadership, which is core to our agency’s DNA – and showcased by MSL being named PRovoke’s ‘Best Midsized Agency to Work For’ for the past four years and recognized as one of PRovoke’s 2025 Global Agencies of the Year.
Travel information: 16 minute walk
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The Steppenwolf ensemble first began performing in the mid-1970s in the basement of a Highland Park, IL church, the ambitious brainchild of three high school and college friends: Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise.
Today, the company's artistic force remains rooted in the original vision of its founders: an artist-driven theatre, whose vitality is defined by its appetite for bold and innovative work. While grounded in the Chicago community, more than 40 original Steppenwolf productions have enjoyed success nationally and internationally, including Broadway. Steppenwolf operates as a not-for-profit organization relying on community support to produce or present engaging plays, readings and other events every year on our three stages. The theatre’s artistic programming draws a multi-generational audience of nearly 200,000 from the greater metropolitan Chicago area, with a broader impact that reaches all around the globe.
Travel information: 17 minute train and short walk
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Constellation Brands is a leading international producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits with operations in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, and Italy. Our mission is to build brands that people love because we believe elevating human connections is Worth Reaching For. It’s worth our dedication, hard work, and calculated risks to anticipate market trends and deliver for our consumers, shareholders, employees, and industry. This dedication is what has driven us to become one of the fastest-growing, large CPG companies in the U.S. at retail, and it drives our pursuit to deliver what’s next.
As an agriculture-based company, we strive to operate in a way that is sustainable and responsible. Our ESG strategy is embedded into our business, and we focus on serving as good stewards of the environment, investing in our communities, and promoting responsible beverage alcohol consumption. We believe these aspirations in support of our longer-term business strategy allow us to contribute to a future that is truly Worth Reaching For.
Travel information: 4 minute walk
Reputation matters. When a client hires a PR firm it’s because they want to achieve something — prominent media coverage about their business or CEO, greater share of voice, new customers or clients, enhanced reputation, or a problem solved. That’s what clients get with Reputation Partners. Boasting top satisfaction scores on client surveys over 16 years, Reputation Partners has won numerous Agency Elite, Golden Trumpet and Impact Communications awards. Visit Reputation Partners and get the behind the scenes story of an award winning campaign and learn more about the benefits of authentic client partnerships and respectfully honest counsel.
Travel information: 10 min walk
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FRIDAY, February 20
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Known for its unique traditions and charm, Wrigley Field, which was built in 1914, has been the beloved home of the Chicago Cubs for more than a century. Find out all about the Friendly Confines and its history of memorable events.
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division. They are one of two major league teams based in Chicago, alongside the American League (AL)’s Chicago White Sox. The Cubs, first known as the White Stockings, were founded in 1870 and are known and loved by the Chicago community.
Travel information: 24 minute train
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Our vast collection is just a small part of what we do. From publishing groundbreaking science, to cataloguing new species—we are committed to connecting all of us to the natural world and the human story. Located on Chicago’s iconic Lake Michigan shore, the Field Museum opened its current building to the public in 1921—but our story began years earlier.
Since opening the Museum in 1894, our collection has grown to nearly 40 million artifacts and specimens. The breadth of our mission has expanded, too. We continue to research the objects in our collections, as well as document previously unknown species, conserve ecosystems in our backyard and across the globe, educate budding scientists, invite cross-cultural conversation, and more—all to ensure that our planet thrives for generations to come. We ask big questions, publish groundbreaking research for the scientific community, and craft exhibitions to capture the imagination of a public who shares our passion for science that is just plain fun. Science is for everyone. And we can’t wait to share it with you.
Travel information: 17-20 minute bus or train, plus short walk
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APCO is a global advisory and advocacy firm helping clients navigate a complex world and create lasting impact. As trusted and strategic advisers, consultants and creators to some of the world’s leading corporations, foundations and governments, we discover and foster valuable connections, insights and solutions that drive our clients’ missions and objectives forward.
What began 40 years ago, with one woman’s vision and bold action, has grown into an independent, majority women-owned firm of more than 1200 employees working in 80 markets around the world. As strategic advisors, creators and communicators, we are best known for our ability to bring diverse people, ideas and stakeholders together; inspire confidence in others, especially those who can’t afford to fail; and for the strength of character and entrepreneurism of our people who work beyond traditional boundaries and briefs. Since our founding, APCO is building the un/common ground upon which progress is made.
Travel information: 20 minute green line train to Clinton and brief walk
G&S Integrated Marketing Communications Group is a multi-faceted platform serving several high-value market and industry sectors. We have two go-to-market agency brands, G&S Business Communications and MorganMyers, a G&S Agency. Each brand serves a specific market and business needs. The Group has more than 165 employees and generates more than $33M in annual revenue. It is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, Ill., Raleigh, N.C., Waukesha, Wis., and Waterloo, Iowa, with remote employees in multiple regions of the country. We are, and always have been, an independent organization for more than 50 years. This allows us to take a longer-term view to better serve our clients and create a unique culture for our employees and partners.
Travel information: 13 minute walk
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We help companies create change that matters. Together, we discover powerful human truths that bind us, create with bravery, and collaborate obsessively. Rooted in the ideals of our founder, “Go All In” is our commitment to bravery, epitomized by the name of our founder, Al Golin.
From McDonald’s, to Grubhub, Golin has worked with a variety of well known clients around the globe. They’re also a two-time 2024 Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity—breaking history as the first PR agency to win a PR Lions—and a 2025 Gold and Silver Cannes Lions winner.
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Travel information: 15-20 minute train and brief walk
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Rudd Resources is a full-service, award-winning public relations firm that handles public affairs, community engagement and storytelling for philanthropic, nonprofit, government and corporate clients. We believe communication is more than messaging, it’s a tool for connection and clarity. That belief shapes everything we do at Rudd Resources. As a member of IPREX—a global network of more than 1,100 communications professionals at 100+ independently owned agencies —we’ve expanded our reach while staying true to who we are: an independent, Black-owned, woman-led agency on Chicago’s South Side, committed to advancing work that matters.
Rudd Resources will host a panel discussion, followed by a workshop that allows attendees to learn and practice the art of introductions. Following the panel, attendees will gather into small groups to share their learnings, with the goal of walking away with a new skill to talk about themselves in interviews and casual conversations.
Rudd Resources is also seeking third and fourth year students who are interested in pursuing agency roles in the following avenues: media relations, graphic design, community engagement, client relations and strategic communications.
Travel information: 27 minute train and 8 minute walk
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For more than two centuries, Molson Coors has brewed beverages that unite people to celebrate all life's moments. From our core power brands Coors Light, Miller Lite, Coors Banquet, Molson Canadian, Carling and Ožujsko to our above premium brands including Madrí Excepcional, Staropramen, Blue Moon Belgian White and Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, to our economy and value brands like Miller High Life and Keystone Light, we produce many beloved and iconic beers. While Molson Coors' history is rooted in beer, we offer a modern portfolio that expands beyond the beer aisle as well, including flavored beverages like Vizzy Hard Seltzer, spirits like Five Trail whiskey and non-alcoholic beverages like ZOA Energy. As a business, our ambition is to be the first choice for our people, our consumers and our customers, and our success depends on our ability to make our products available to meet a wide range of consumer segments and occasions.
Travel information: 13 minute train and brief walk; or 15 minute walk (without train)
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Visit an exciting co-working space in Chicago and have a candid discussion about the Chicago PR landscape in this interactive site visit hosted by The Publicity Club of Chicago. Impact House is the home to Chicago’s impact leaders and innovators; you will tour the huge coworking space and then sit down with a group of agency, non-profit, independent and association professionals to hear the real story on building a career in Chicago and how professional associations like the Publicity Club of Chicago and Chicago PRSA can help you forge a rewarding path. Not your traditional site visit – this is a chance to explore various career options and get personal advice on finding opportunities in Chicago PR and Communications.
Travel information: about 15 mins walk or 10 minute bus/train ride