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Every so often a “gotta go” event comes along.  This is one of them.


Lake Michigan Region is excited to invite you to the 2025 Lambda Car Club Grand Invitational: 
RidwitPride!”.  Held June 25-29, 2025, across greater Chicago, “RidwitPride” promises to be something special.  For the first time ever, a Grand Invitational is happening in sync with one of America’s premier gay events: Chicago’s Pride Parade.

 

Join us at our host hotel in suburban Lombard, IL, for five days packed with fun activities celebrating fellowship, cars and Pride.  There’s a set of core events included with your registration fee, as well as a slew of extra-cost options that allow you to choose your own adventure.  The core events – bundled into the Nice Package (whoa!) – run from Thursday, June 26, through Saturday, June 28.  Package Enhancements (optional events) are sprinkled in from Wednesday through Sundayincluding a bus ride to Chicago’s Pride Parade, attended by over 1 million people!

 

As always, vehicles of all years, types, stripes and styles are welcome.

 

There’s a lot to take in as you customize an itinerary that best reflects your interests and captures the essence of your Pride, so pour yourself a cuppa coffee, read through the following and register.  We can’t wait to host you in Chicago!

Below is information related to:

  • LODGING
  • SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • REGISTRATION & FEES

Use this link to go to the registration page:  Chicago - 2025 Grand Invitational - Events - Lambda Car Club

 LODGING                                        

2025 GI Host Hotel

Our host hotel is the Westin Yorktown, a dog-friendly hotel, located at 70 Yorktown Center, Lombard, ILIt features all the luxury amenities that you deserve including complimentary indoor parking, fitness center and indoor pool. It is conveniently located just steps away from major shopping and restaurants.  It is also centrally located to many Chicago-area attractions should you choose to arrive early or extend your stay beyond this event

Please book your room separately by May 25
th, at the group rate of only $149 per night, by using the following link:  Westin group rate for Lambda Car Club International (LCCI) 2025
The group rate is for rooms from Tuesday through Sunday with limited availability on Tuesday & Wednesday.  If unable to book all of your room nights online, you can book the nights that are still available at the group rate and then book any additional rooms separately using Westin Yorktown Reservations or by contacting the hotel directly at 630-719-8000.  Note the additional room rate may not be the same as our discounted group rate.

Car Parking Free secure (overnight security guard) indoor car parking is available on three dedicated floors of the parking garage for all guests of the host hotel.


Trailer 
Parking 
Free trailer parking will be available on a limited basis.  Please indicate if you will need trailer parking when asked during registration.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS                

We have selected a variety of 
exciting events that we think will appeal to both the car enthusiast and anyone interested in transportation, architecturehistory or music.  You can continue to scroll through the entire document to see them all!

 THE NICE PACKAGE - $399/$439
2025 GI Start Your Ride X

Thursday6/26 Evening: Start the Ride!

It’s been a long day.  Probably hot, too.  
So it’s time to do what “the gays” do best.  Actually, what they do sec…er…third best: And that’s whoop it up.  Gather at the Welcome Party to quench, snack, talk, laugh, vamp and relax in the bosom of old friends.  Or maybe in the bosom of that new friend across the room.  ‘Cause chatting up mysterious strangers is what the gays do fourth best.

Included!

2025 GI Taillight Glow 2

Thursday, 6/26 Night: Light Up Your Ride!

Hope you’re up for a visit to the Red LightDistrict – because we can’t have a Grand Invitational without the famous Taillight Glow.  From the roof of the parking garage the lights of Chicago should be glistening in the distance, but you may just be preoccupied wondering why it is that everybody looks so much better bathed in red light on a hot summer night.

Included!

2025 GI Cher the Ride

Friday6/27 Afternoon'CHER’ the Ride!

If there’s one thing Dark Lady’s shown over 60 years in showbiz, it’s that variety is the spice of life.  Inspired by her “try anything once” attitude, here’s an opportunity to check off new automotive experiences in cars of different marques, eras and styles.  Ever ridden in a two-seater?  A car older than you?  A true hardtop (after all, good ones can be hard to find!)?  If not, now’s your chance: club members and invited guests will provide rides in special cars around a course in the hotel’s parking lot, creating a shared…sorry…Cher'd experience to remember! 

Included!

2025 GI Ride the Waves

Friday, 6/27 EveningRide the Waves!

Spirit of Chicago
After so much time riding on wheels, it’s time to ride something else.  Travel by motorcoach to legendary Navy Pier to board the “Spirit of Chicago.”  It’ll be a night of 
dinin’ and dancin’ o’er the waves of Lake Michigan, cruising the length of – if we may be so bold – America’s most breathtaking skyline.

Included!

2025 GI Car Show

Saturday, 6/28 All DayShow Pride in Your Ride!


You bought it, you brought it, now show that you’ve got it: Pride in Your Ride.  The Car Show starts now!  Provoke your fellow gays to seethe with white-hot envy at the quality of your car, accessorizing, staging and presentation – and at how you make it all look so damn easy.  Wash stations within the covered parking garage provide you what you need to detail your ride…and shoot for a coveted trophy.  (Lunch included)

Included!

2025 GI Member Meeting

Saturday, 6/28 Afternoon: LCCI Membership Meeting

The membership meeting will be held in 
the Magnolia Room at the Westin Hotel and hosted by LCCI National Board President, David Baker and other national Board members. This 1-hour meeting is your chance to hear about current and future news/plans for LCCI and ask questions.

Included!

2025 GI Cocktail Party
2025 GI Banquet

Saturday, 6/28 Evening: The Rides of Our Lives!

Park the cars and brace yourself for an evening of eating, entertainment, trophies and maybe even a catfight or two!  It promises to be a lotta fun! There’ll be tributes to the special rides of our lives 
that made us who we are today, along with an awards ceremony that you will not want to miss!


Included!

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTS - Wednesday
2025 GI Ride the Rails

Wednesday, 6/25 Mid-Morning/AfternoonRide the Rails!

Illinois Railway Museum
What’s long, hard and gleams in the sun?  Rails!  Caravan to the Illinois Railway Museum – the largest working railway museum in the U.S. – to see rails 
a’plenty and the machines that ride ‘em!  Machines like locomotives – and if you think a ’73 Imperial is big you’d better gird your loins. (Lunch included)
     
Cost $36

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTSThursday Choice 1
2025 GI Ride to Wright - Studio
2025 GI Ride to Wright - Temple

Thursday, 6/26 All-Day: Ride to Wright(Limited to 120 people)


Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio and Unity Temple

You can’t go wrong with Wright.  Caravan to Oak Park to tour famous edifices designed by America’s first starchitect, Frank Lloyd Wright – his Home and Studio, and Unity Temple – along with a guided walk among private homes also designed by the master.  And given Wright’s zesty private life filled with debt, infidelity and murder, there might be a pinch of gossip shared as well!  (Lunch included)

 

Cost: $78

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTS Thursday Choice 2 
2025 GI Ride to Riches - PWM
2025 GI Ride to Riches- Sanf

Thursday, 6/26 All-Day: Ridto Riches(Limited to 150 people)

Park Ward Motors and Sanfilippo Place de la Musique
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that the rich “are different from you and me”.  Let’s find out what he meant.  For starters, they demand exquisite materials and craftsmanship – so you’ll caravan to Park Ward Motors for a hands-on workshop to see how wood and leather found in the world’s most-prestigious cars are restored.  The rich also collect things, so you’ll further caravan to Sanfilippo, a mansion filled with an enormous collection of automatic musical instruments – including the world’s largest indoor organ, which goes up and down.  And up and down!  And up and…!  (Lunch included)

Cost $62

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTS - Friday
2025 GI Klairmont

Friday, 6/27 Morning: See Fabulous Rides(Limited to 300 people)

Klairmont Kollections
Kar klusters don't get more eklektik than the 300+ kars that komprise the Klairmont Kollections, only recently opened to the publik.  A motorkoach will whisk you to this kompilation of award-winners, from mikrokars to Kadillacs, kustoms to klassiks, hyperkars to komponents.  (Lunch on your own).


Cost $45

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTS - Sunday
2025 GI Pride Parade

Sunday, 6/29 Morning/AfternoonRide to Pride!

Boystown/Northalsted

Wait…it’s already Sunday?  Sure is – and after the weekend you may be ready to burst.  But if you’re bursting with Pride, travel by motorcoach to join up to one million of your best friends at Chicago’s famous Gay Pride Parade.  We’ve got a reserved viewing area along the parade route.  It just doesn’t get more civilized than that, which shouldn’t be a surprise, since everyone knows that gays invented civilization. (Lunch included)

Cost $42

PACKAGE ENHANCEMENTS - Souvenir T-Shirt
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Impress your friends!  Show your Pride!  Cherish memories!  Expand your wardrobe!  Pre-order your souvenir t-shirt(s) and pick them up when you arrive.

You will receive a white ringer t-shirt with the "Ride with Pride, Chicago 2025" event logo emblazoned in full color across the back and a smaller "Ride with Pride, Chicago 2025" over the left chest as shown here.

Select during registration and you will be asked for your shirt size(s) on the following page.

Cost $24 each

TRANSPORTATION - Planes, Trains or Automobiles! 
2025 GI Map

LOCATION - Lombard, IL (Chicago) is centrally located from all coasts and is easily accessible by car or public transportation
(
airplane or train). 

PLANES – You can fly into either the O’Hare International Airport or Midway International Airport.  From there, you can take a suburban taxi. We recommend you prearrange a taxi from American Taxi at 1-630-305-0700.  American Taxi’s flat-rate from O’Hare is $43 and from Midway is $51.  

TRAINS – Take the BNSF Aurora train from Chicago's Union Train Station to the Downers Grove Station (50 minutes) or take the Union Pacific West Metra Train from Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center to the Lombard Station (40 minutes).  Contact the Westin at 630- 719-8000 for their complimentary shuttle to the hotel.
AUTOMOBILES - The Westin Yorktown Hotel is located near the intersection of Interstate 88 and Highland Ave. at 70 Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL  60148

REGISTRATION & FEES           

EARLY Registration ends on Sunday, March 23rd (or when the registrations reach 350, whichever occurs first)

FINAL Registration ends on Sunday, May 25th.  (or when the registrations reach 350, whichever occurs first)

Just six easy steps to secure your spot:
 
#1   Login
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2   Ensure your Lambda Profile/Basic Member Information is current & correct as it will be used for all correspondence and name tags.
#3   Use this link to go to the registration page:  Chicago - 2025 Grand Invitational - Events - Lambda Car Club
#4   Follow the prompts to select any optional activities and answer all the questions

#  Book your hotel room
#6   Prepare your car or plan your transportation