Scott Baker, DMCP

• Favorite Chicago Venue: U-505 Exhibit at MSI
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Gibson's
• Favorite food in Chicago: Pizza, of course
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Take dogs to the beach for a swim
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: Coordinating very last minute and extremely complicated transportation services a few days after 9/11 for a client that was in San Diego for a large National Sales Meeting during 9/11. The attendees were from all over the country and they desperately wanted to get home. CTC chartered airplanes into Chicago and Milwaukee, where we greeted the guests and then put them on all types of transportation heading to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Albany, Hartford, Boston, Baltimore, Newark, and New York City.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Shedd Aquarium
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Ditka's Steakhouse
• Favorite food in Chicago: Skillet Cookie
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Run down by Lake Michigan in the summer
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: Coordinating all aspects for 7,000 attendees from a large pharmaceutical company at four major hotels in February for two weeks.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Cafe Brauer
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Japonais
• Favorite food in Chicago: Lobster Mac 'N' Cheese at Capital Grill
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Walk down Michigan Avenue very early in the morning when the streets are empty.
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: Successfully operating a 6-day multi-transportation program for 8,000 attendees staying at 19 hotels.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Chicago Botanic Garden
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Keefer's
• Favorite food in Chicago: Pizza of course!
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Participate in Charity Walks along the Lakefront.
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: Helping coordinate a team building activity for upper level executives where they were tasked with building bicycles and upon completion personally presented them to the local underprivledged children who were the recipients of the bikes.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Harris Theatre at Millennium Park
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Tizi Melloul
• Favorite food in Chicago: Foie Gras with Pop Rocks at Graham Elliot
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Dining alfresco, any kind of live music show, strolling through the neighborhood festivals, shopping and people watching.
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: Watching the faces of attendees as they stepped onto the 25th Floor Terrace of the historic Tribune Tower and experienced Chicago's remarkable skyline at sunset.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Salvage One
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: La Madia and Sunda
• Favorite food in Chicago: Indian
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Ride the bike path from Rogers Park to Hyde Park and back - in the summer
  Best/Favorite Program Experience: A fundraiser event at the Aragon Ballroom for 800 people. The venue included a live auction, silent auction, multiple entertainment acts, skits from the presenters, with a seated dinner, DJ and dancing at the end. There was much action to coordinate. As the stage manager, I wore a clearcom in one ear and a walkie in the other, in order to interface with the talent, staff, and audience. I was connected to every part of the show and making things happen. It was exhilirating.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Chicago Botanic Garden
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Green Zebra
• Favorite food in Chicago: Mediterranean
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Anything to do with and around the beach in the summer!
  Best/Favorite Program Experience: Helping to assist in the coordination of an international marching band competition in Bloomington, IN. Working along with the Bloomington Visitor's Center, we helped to feed, house, and etnertain over 400,000 people.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: Doggie Beach
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: Dunkin Donuts, free donut holes if I wag my tail!
• Favorite food in Chicago: All food is good with me
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Walk and Sniff
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: In the dog days of summer, I love taking a walk down to Doggie Beach to play with all the other dogs in Lake Michigan.

• Favorite Chicago Venue: CTC Headquarters
• Favorite Chicago Restaurant: I agree with my older brother, Buddy!
• Favorite food in Chicago: Anything but dry dog food.
• Favorite Thing to Do In Chicago: Rides in the summer with the back windows open.
• Best/Favorite Program Experience: I love when the UPS and Federal Express delivery men arrive with presents!