McCormick Place, unions join forces // $100 million plan will add parking,...

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 13, 1997 ;     469 words ......serve the convention center. Four of five unions at McCormick Place agreed to...employees of the convention center and to simplify...investment by the convention center, the source...management of McCormick Place will drop...illegal at the ...

The fast break McCormick Place boasts the most advanced infrastructure of...

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ......business of conventions at McCormick Place, which has built the...infrastructure available at any convention center in the world to help...Authority, which runs McCormick Place, the nearby Hyatt Hotel...unmatched by any other convention center. While McCormick ...

McCormick Place upgrades bring 3-year commitment for show

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 1, 2004 ;     305 words ...One reason McCormick Place won a three-year...December 2002, McCormick Place, the country's largest convention center, became the first...North America's convention at McCormick Place have used Internet2...complete overhaul of McCormick Place's ...

McCormick Place may spice menu: Convention center's leaders mull overhaul...

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  November 8, 2006 ;     672 words ......Bergen Nov. 8--McCormick Place conventioneers...overhaul of the convention center's food operations...Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. With an early...exist in the convention center world today...who follows the convention business. And...options should make ...

Philadelphia Looks at How Chicago's Convention Center, Labor Relations.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......trade-show capital: McCormick Place will soon get...difference? Inside McCormick Place, the nation's biggest convention center, unions work...overtime rules, McCormick Place now receives...issues at the Convention Center and, in turn...sheer size of ...

McCormick Place GM takes D.C. post

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 10, 2003 ;     211 words ......Washington, D.C. convention center that opened this...and has worked at McCormick Place for five years...space in the U.S., McCormick Place has been losing...which promotes McCormick Place. Reilly used to...

Alter's grand hotel plan; 1,500-room complex at McCormick Place could...

Crain's Chicago Business;  January 7, 2008 ;     619 words ......casino-adjacent to McCormick Place. The Skokie-based...the newly built McCormick Place West building...the $880-million McCormick Place expansion opened...Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, owned by the...that operates the convention center. The ...

$55 for a case of pop? Welcome to McCormick Place

Chicago Sun-Times;  July 25, 2005 ;     660 words ......an exhibition booth at a McCormick Place convention, and, as one exhibitor...25 delivery fee that, as McCormick Place officials note, could have...soar. The unions working at McCormick Place recently agreed to wage and...installed for a few days at McCormick ...

Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center Gets Approval for Expansion.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 16, 2002 ;     461 words ......million expansion of McCormick Place. Project officials...feet. Expanding McCormick Place would keep the...authority operates McCormick Place and Navy Pier...spokesman John Torre. McCormick Place already is the largest convention center in North ...

Chicago-Area Panel Awards Convention-Center Expansion Contract.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 17, 2003 ;     478 words ......board that controls McCormick Place and Navy Pier awarded...billion expansion of the convention center to a partnership that...involved in building McCormick Place South in the mid-1990s...already the largest convention center in the country, compete...meeting rooms ...

ACLU Asks Court to Defend Free Speech Rights at McCormick Place for Group...

U.S. Newswire;  September 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......operators of McCormick Place are violating...the prominent convention center, according...Concourse at McCormick Place and a park...public areas of McCormick Place, attendees...the policy at McCormick Place of banning...convention at ...

Congrats - now comes the hard part; McCormick Place's biggest battle for...

Crain's Chicago Business;  February 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Building at McCormick Place for the first...recently expanded McCormick Place, which is now...Building of McCormick Place, with nearly...giant Las Vegas Convention Center is adding 320...000-square-foot Rosemont Convention Center expects to...1989. Whereas ...

Convention Center hires art consultant.(Arts & Entertainment)

The Washington Times;  February 3, 2001 ;     656 words ......Washington Convention Center Authority has...Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia...650 million convention center is scheduled...old center. Convention Center officials traveled...Pennsylvania Convention Center and McCormick Place ...

McCormick Place deal up in air after vote

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 18, 1997 ;     405 words ...An agreement between McCormick Place and the unions that work there...between the 4,000 union workers and McCormick Place will survive defeat in the Legislature. McCormick Place's management has argued for months...and electricians - complain that McCormick Place charges ...

MCCORMICK PLACE ADDITION: Taming the beast of bigness.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Chicago's McCormick Place, the convention center with the...space to McCormick Place and keeping the convention center, still the...Authority, the convention center's owner...the older McCormick Place exhibition...