Between July and December, McCormick Place had been scheduled to host 67 events with an expected attendance of 781,168 people, generating almost $923 million in economic impact, including spending on food and entertainment.
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.
One of the biggest economic engines the City had. Destroyed.
These conventions aren’t coming back, ever.
And how much you want to bet McCormick Place will cling to its idiotically draconian union policies right up until the building implosion?
they got their 65 million dollar payday from the temporary hospital that a whopping 37 people used…
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients
37 people. Not even Mark Twain himself could have concocted the farce that is Illinois.
So much for Dictator for Life Jabba’s belief that visitors will flock to Chicago because the harsh lockdown rules prove its a bastion of safety