The region's longest-running innovation showcase, now in its 25th year: ~700 Chicago founders, operators, investors and civic leaders in one room celebrating the Top 100 and crowning the year's winners. The actual value is less the awards and more the density, this is the single night every meaningful Chicago product company, their backers and the ecosystem glue (P33, 1871, Polsky, Kellogg, mHUB) show up to the same room. Winners ring the Nasdaq bell in Times Square the next week and get a Kellogg exec-ed scholarship. If you're building anything in Chicago, this is the one annual mixer you should not skip.

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