Film And TV Industry Came To Rescue To Prevent McCormick Place’s $3 Billion Pandemic Revenue Loss From Being Even Worse – CBS2 (Chicago)

For the month of March, the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority reported a net operating loss of about $7 million – but that was about $2 million under what they were projecting. As to a return to normal, the estimate right now that in the first quarter of 2022, McCormick Place will host 25 percent of its original events scheduled – and will return to 100 percent of original scheduling during 2024.
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debtsor
5 years ago

100% capacity by 2024.

But they’ll have only 40% attendance as all of the shows, tourists and conventions will have moved elsewhere.

Too bad, so sad!

Not the Senator's Son
5 years ago

You should have allowed Samaritan’s Purse Franklin Graham to run your field hospitals.

The Christians can always do it better than any government.
And they do it for FREE!

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