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McCormick Place: It's not big enough
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Chicago Sun-Times
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April 12, 2001
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I'll likely be dead before we're done paying for the latest
proposed expansion of McCormick Place.
Of course, I could be dead before they start building it, too, but
I'll try to look on the bright side. I wouldn't want to miss out on
the contracting scandals.
It only seems like we just finished construction on the last
McCormick Place expansion.
In fact, it only seems like we always are expanding McCormick
Place.
Actually, it's been four years since the doors opened on McCormick
South, the second gargantuan addition to our mammoth convention
center.
And I'm certain there were a couple of years in the past two
decades when somebody wasn't plotting or executing another mega-
building ...