CAKE 2025

Saturday, June 28, 11:00 - 6:00 PM
Sunday, June 29, 11:00 - 5:00 PM

The Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630

Masks strongly encouraged!
Review our COVID-19 Policy here

Thank you to our sponsors!

Additional thanks to…

CAKE would like to extend our gratitude to the Irish American Heritage Center for hosting our show and providing support throughout the planning process. Thank you IAHC!

Huge thanks to this year’s Organizers, Coordinators, and Show Volunteers!

Organizers: Chris Lopez, Kevin Budnik, and Alex O’Keefe

Coordinators: Aaliyah Lachel’e, Addie Grosse, Andrea Pearson, Gus Kelsey, Kat Park, Leo Mancini, Matt McCormick, Parish Turner, Simon Morrow, and Stephen Winchell

Community Care Protocols

CAKE attendees are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to wear well-fitting face coverings, frequently sanitize their hands, and monitor their health in order to care for all members of our community. Additionally, we recommend reviewing our COVID-19 policies. We appreciate your help to make everyone feel safe and comfortable at our show.

Safer Spaces Policy

CAKE does not discriminate against any person with respect to race, color, sex, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, or source of income. CAKE is a safe space: actions or merchandise that is considered hateful or that makes any attendee, staff member, or exhibitor feel unsafe will not be tolerated. Offended parties are encouraged to approach CAKE organizers to mediate and resolve the situation. CAKE reserves the right to remove any party from our events. Participants agree to not hold CAKE, its staff, or the Irish American Heritage Center responsible for any lost, stolen, or damaged merchandise. The CAKE safer space policy is intended to make our event a supportive, nonthreatening, and safe environment. If you experience harassment, abuse, assault,or any other kind of violation of our policy during CAKE, or if for any other reason you need support, please notify CAKE organizers or CAKE staff; our on-call exhibitor services team will help resolve the situation.

2025 programs and badges printed by Print Ninja

Buttons provided by Busy Beaver Button Co.

CAKE 2025 art by the wonderful Mike Centeno (table 401B)