With conventions and trade shows on hold and hotel rooms empty, the McPier Authority had no choice but to use the state as its financial backstop. The $15.2 million “unreimbursed draw-down” of state sales tax revenue was the first since the 2008 recession.
Conventions will never be the same inChicago. Start planning now
Eugene from a payphone
5 years ago
I’d be surprised if conventions ever again reach their former numbers. People who run them have found there are other places as good or better than Chicago where you need not pay a Union electrician to plug in a lamp and you need not worry about your goods on display being stolen overnight. Better places offer walkable downtowns where conventioneers are safe from thug attacking in gangs.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Conventions will never be the same inChicago. Start planning now
I’d be surprised if conventions ever again reach their former numbers. People who run them have found there are other places as good or better than Chicago where you need not pay a Union electrician to plug in a lamp and you need not worry about your goods on display being stolen overnight. Better places offer walkable downtowns where conventioneers are safe from thug attacking in gangs.