Illinois lodging guide
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On-site lodging means your guests can stay overnight where you get married: a hotel room block, a few rooms at an inn, or a whole estate for the weekend, each with its own costs and booking rules. In Illinois, 14 of the venues we track have on-site lodging, and the biggest group is hotels and resorts (10). They are most common in Chicago's North & Northwest Suburbs.
We've gathered details on 72 Illinois venues. Pick a starting point and Sage will rank them for your day, with cost estimates wherever the venue publishes its prices.
Counted only when a venue says guests can stay on the property; a hotel nearby doesn't count, and a venue that doesn't say is left out rather than guessed.
What kind of venue
The share of each kind of Illinois venue that has on-site lodging. Start your search with the kinds at the top: hotels (9 of 9) and country clubs and golf clubs (3 of 20).
Read the lodging offer carefully
10 Illinois venues
Usually a room block: rooms held at a group rate that guests book themselves. Ask how many it holds, the booking deadline, and whether you pay for rooms nobody books.
In Illinois: Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa, The Congress Plaza Hotel and Chicago Athletic Association hotel, among others.
See hotels and resorts with on-site lodging2 Illinois venues
Often enough for the wedding party and family, not everyone. Ask how many can sleep there; the party capacity says nothing about beds.
In Illinois: Camp Aramoni and Hyatt Lodge Oak Brook.
1 Illinois venue
Every room comes with the booking, often for a minimum number of nights. Ask the total cost, who pays for the rooms, and whether the rehearsal dinner or brunch is included.
In Illinois: Camp Aramoni.
Only 4 of the 14 Illinois venues with on-site lodging say how many guests can sleep there. Of those, 2 sleep 60 or more, enough for most of a 100-guest wedding. Some venues are more than one of these kinds, so the counts overlap.
How these venues differ
The 14 Illinois venues with on-site lodging against the 58 other venues, biggest difference first.
| Share that | These venues | Other venues |
|---|---|---|
| Offer their own catering | 93% | 66% |
| Price the space alone, before food | 0% | 22% |
| Provide a coordinator | 57% | 38% |
| Offer an outdoor ceremony | 50% | 66% |
| Have both indoor and outdoor spaces | 57% | 72% |
| Have four or more separate event spaces | 57% | 45% |
Each row counts only the venues that say; a venue that doesn't is left out of that row rather than counted as a no.
Where to look
The tick on each bar marks Illinois as a whole: 14 of 72 venues have on-site lodging (19%). Regions with fewer than five venues that say are left out.
What it costs
$21k
Typical venue and food, 100 guests
Across the 9 of these Illinois venues that publish a full price.
$13k–$28k
Typical range
Most of them fall in this range.
$18k
Every Illinois venue
The typical figure across all 33 Illinois venues with a full price, for comparison.
In Illinois, venues with on-site lodging typically cost $21k for the venue and food for 100 guests, 19% more than the $18k typical across the state.
These figures are for the wedding itself, the venue and the food. The lodging is almost always billed separately, to you or to each guest.
Places worth a closer look
Open a venue for its pricing, spaces and rules, and check how many can stay overnight.
Itasca
Guests can stay on site, and there are indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces plus a rain plan
Under $15k · Venue Fee + Catering
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Chicago
Guests can stay on site. Ask how many people it sleeps and what booking requires
$25–35k · Venue Fee + Catering
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Oak Brook · Up to 300 guests
Guests can stay on site, and there are indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces plus a rain plan
$15–25k · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Itasca
Guests can stay on site, and there are indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces plus a rain plan
Under $15k · Venue Fee + Catering
See pricing and policies
Chicago · Up to 40 guests
Guests can stay on site, and there is a rain plan
Food & Bar Est.
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Wheaton · Up to 270 guests
Guests can stay on site, and there are indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces plus a rain plan
$25–35k · Venue Fee + Catering
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Describe your guest count, your budget, and anything you can’t compromise on. See a ranked list of venues, with why each one fits, trade-offs, and what to double-check.
Sage the Date reads each venue's own published details, including pricing, catering and alcohol rules, music curfews, rain plans, whether you get the whole property, and how many guests each space holds. Every estimate uses your guest count. When a venue doesn't say, we tell you instead of guessing.
Before you book
Sage reads each venue's own published pricing and policies, puts different kinds of quotes on the same footing, and estimates the cost for 100 guests. A venue counts as having lodging only when its own published details say it has places to stay on the property. The costs are for the venue and the food only, never the lodging. If a venue doesn't say something, we treat it as a question to ask, not a no.
