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The Decatur Area Convention & Visitors Bureau will help coordinate the details of your next meeting or convention – from the initial site selection process to conducting after-convention reviews with you, in anticipation of your next event.
The CVB staff understands that hosting a meeting takes a lot of work and planning. We offer the convenience of being your liaison between the many choices of sites and services available in the Decatur/Forsyth area. From the beginning stages, we will work with you, based on your requirements and budget, in obtaining bids and selecting the venues and services best-suited for your group.
We offer many services to help you make your meeting a successful and memorable event. The Bureau will provide the following complimentary services to groups utilizing hotel rooms:
We can help with a variety of planning jobs including tour itineraries, companion programs, and golf outings. We can also provide step-on guides for tours of the city. We gladly coordinate welcoming arrangements with local officials and can arrange for local speakers.
DACVB can connect you to hotels or venues. We can also help coordinate room blocks from area hotels/motels, including multi-site housing. Need to coordinate shuttle services for multi-site events? We can do that, too!
We will staff your event with friendly, professional registration assistants to help check in your attendees. Just let us know how many guests you expect, and we’ll make sure you have enough help to get the job done!
DACVB can provide printed name badges and badge holders for event attendees.
We can also supply your guests with a bag including a Visitor’s Guide and Decatur Area
Year-round recreational activities – boating, water skiing, fishing, swimming, golf, jogging, bicycling, skateboarding, hiking, tennis, bowling, sailing, ice skating, and cross country skiing – are available throughout the area. We can provide your group with a detailed listing of activities and events, as well as local shopping and nightlife, for leisure time.
The Convention & Visitors Bureau will be happy to arrange personalized package tours to a variety of local and area historical, cultural and recreational sites. Tour information is available for planners to consider for pre- or post-convention activities. We can coordinate tour transportation as well.
The Decatur Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has years of experience matching the needs of planners to the full spectrum of meeting sites, banquet spaces, catering services and hospitality providers in our area. Whether you’re expecting 15 or 1,500, Decatur/Forsyth offers many options from which to choose.
The largest conference center hotel between Chicago and St. Louis
370 guest rooms, on site restaurants & cocktail lounge
Over 55,000 square feet of meeting, convention and trade show space, small meeting rooms & a large ballroom
Executive business center
Indoor pool, sauna-whirlpool, and an NFL-approved fitness center
A full sales and catering staff to help with everything for your meeting from water pitchers to 7-course meals.
Theater that can accommodate up to 500
Two meeting rooms, each can seat up to 50
28,000 square-foot arena for sporting events, trade shows and banquets
Upper lobby, capacity 200, for wedding receptions, banquets, reunions, and parties
1 Gary K Anderson Plaza
Decatur, IL 62523
Richland Community College’s Center for Business Training and Community Education offers the following:
Shilling Auditorium seats 350. AV equipment is available at no charge.
Shilling Salons are available for groups from 5-150. Half or full day rental available.
Satellite Video Conferencing is also available.
Located at the Macon Country Fair Grounds is the The Pride of the Prairie Center, a 9600 square foot, carpeted, banquet hall with stage and dance floor. Unique pricing structure allows for half day or full day rentals. Also available are open spaces, numerous buildings, storage space, city water, electrical usage, horse arena, and 3,200 seat grandstand and livestock barns all on 60 acres on Decatur’s northwest side.
ADM Building: 5,184 Square Feet (60×144)
Decatur Building: 5,280 Square Feet (60×88)
Maltas Building: 9,600 Square Feet (60×160)
The Mt. Zion Convention Center is a multipurpose meeting and convention facility located in the newly constructed Mt. Zion Village East building along State Highway 121. Modern in design and technology, the Convention Center will serve Mt. Zion and our surrounding community as a destination for local and regional events.
It has a grand ballroom that can be divided into three smaller rooms as well as three other small meeting rooms. The grand ballroom contains 11,000 square feet of unobstructed exhibit/meeting space, full-service catering and experienced staff to help coordinate events of many sizes from as few as ten people to as many as 800 guests!
Ice Skating / Ice Hockey
Regulation size (28,000 sq. ft.), seating for 1,000, lockers, conference room, concessions and arcade, ample parking
Multi-Purpose Facility
The DISC, owned and operated by the Decatur Park District, is located near Millikin University and is the only facility of it’s kind in Central Illinois. This 87,000 square foot facility provides a number of recreational opportunities including an indoor soccer complex.
1295 W. Wood Street
Decatur, IL 62522
