The agency's campus that houses McCormick Place Convention Center, a 2.6-million-square-foot facility that is the largest convention center in North America, and the Wintrust Arena has been shuttered since March 2020. One of two hotels on the campus just south of downtown Chicago remained open and the second recently reopened.
I think we need another arena so we can have something new to wreck and ask for more funding. More empty hotels too. All will be needed when tourists return to Chicago? Is anyone in charge? I think not! Every big project is being flown by carpet bagging renegades.
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.
I think we need another arena so we can have something new to wreck and ask for more funding. More empty hotels too. All will be needed when tourists return to Chicago? Is anyone in charge? I think not! Every big project is being flown by carpet bagging renegades.