Magicians and Magic Shows

Rob Mendell is a Card Magician who lives and works in Chicagoland. He has been honing and performing his unique and fun brand of Interactive Close-up Entertainment with playing cards since 1973.

Every effect he does is interactive. You will not only pick cards but find them yourself in magical ways. Or maybe you'll get lucky and locate four of a kind of your own favorite number from a shuffled deck!

Rob works at events such as these:

Private Events
Weddings
Holiday Parties
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs

Corporate Events
Meetings
Trade Shows
Hospitality Suites

Celebrations
Festivals
Graduations
Birthday Parties

Venue Events
Openings
Restaurant Table Magic
Customer Appreciations

Rob has Performed in Chicagoland at these places:

Restaurants, Clubs, Hotels, and Bars
O'Donovan's Restaurant (formerly Schulien's, one of Chicago's famous magic bars), Drake Hotel Ballroom, District, Firehouse Restaurant, Maggiano's (Downtown Chicago and Old Orchard), Dragonfly, House of Blues, Marriott Lincolnshire, Soprano's, Stoney River, Three Aces, Sushi Samba, Plush, Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Chicago Yacht Club, Colletti's Dining & Banquets, The Bank Restaurant, Salvage One, Galleria Marchetti, Xippo Bar, The Palmer House, Fairmont Chicago Hotel, Russian Tea Time, Westin North Shore Hotel, etc.

Retail Stores, and Other Public Chicagoland Locations
Navy Pier, The Breakers at Edgewater, Beth Emet Synagogue, Old St. Mary's Church, Children's Memorial Hospital, Magnificent Mile, Grant Park, Millennium Park, Greenbriar Park, Urban Butterfly, Indigo Studio, Lincolnwood Place, LUSH Cosmetics, Macy's on State Street, Waveland Bowl, Plumber's Union Hall, Water Tower Place, Degerberg Academy of Martial Arts, and many sidewalk and indoor locations all over the city

Festivals, Fairs, and Block Parties
Taste of Chicago, Looptopia*, German-American Fest, Hope for Haiti, Chicago Jazz Fest, Takin' it to the Streets, Lincoln Square MaiFest, Andersonville Midsommarfest, Edgewater Third Saturday, RibFest, Custer Street Arts Festival, Fountain Square Art Festival, Brilliant Corners, Chicago Toy & Game Fair, and lots of neighborhood block parties, festivals, and fairs, etc. * Channel 7 ABC News included a cameo of CARD MAGIC in their coverage of this event.

Partial List of Representative Card Magic Clients
Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School
Beverly Country Club
Boy Scouts of America
Blue Book Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Center for Conflict Resolution
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group
Children's Memorial Hospital
Christian Liberty Academy
Edgewater Chamber of Commerce
Fairygodmother Foundation
Fieldglass, Inc.
Five Phase Wellness Center
Greater Rockwell Organization
Heritage of Des Plaines
Highlife Adventures
Indigo Studio
International Brotherhood of Magicians
Jobs for Youth
Kearns Design Group
Kenwood of Lakeview
Lincolnwood Place
LUSH Cosmetics
Marbles, the brain store
Music Box Theater
McCann Window & Exteriors
Neumann Association

Rob Mendell is a member of the Society of American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and looks forward to bringing his talents and amazement to your next gathering.

Among other cities, Card Magic by Rob Mendell may serve the following areas: Chicago, Hoffman Estates, Aurora, Joliet, Oak Lawn, Bedford Park, Schaumburg, Harwood Heights, Lincolnwood, Naperville, Oak Brook, Shorewood, Bolingbrook, Barrington Hills, Beach Park, Downers Grove, Elgin, Evanston, Green Oaks, Hinsdale, Lemont, Lockport, Melrose Park, Norridge, Oak Park, Palatine, Plainfield, Romeoville, Volo, Algonquin