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Chicago Convention Center Information

Chicago offers unparalleled meeting facilities, diverse hotels, world-class shopping, exciting nightlife, and impressive attractions that offer a unique blend of big-city entertainment with state-of-the-art meeting capabilities. The city has been ranked as the most visited U.S. destination for business travelers for the past several years. A record of 13.78 million business travelers visited Chicago in 2005.

McCormick Place Convention Center
McCormick Place is North America's premier convention and trade show facility with an exhibit space of 2.2 million Sq Ft. It is located just minutes from downtown Chicago. McCormick Place is owned and operated by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) and attracts close to 3 million visitors each year.

It has 112 meeting rooms, assembly seating for 10,000 people, a 4,249-seat theater (Arie Crown Theater), and three additional theaters with a capacity of 345 people each. McCormick Place is easily accessed and has 8,000 parking spaces available. McCormick Place is comprised of three state-of-the-art buildings: North Building, South Building and Lakeside Center.

McCormick Place also features a 50,000 square-foot pedestrian promenade, referred to as the Grand Concourse, which links the entire development and contains retail shops and other visitor amenities. Full service bars, cafes and restaurants are located throughout the entire facility.

The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is connected to McCormick Place via the enclosed Grand Concourse. The facility easily answers the hotel needs of event organizers by offering more than 800 sleeping rooms as well as banquet space and a conference center.

McCormick Place West, the fourth building on the site, is under construction. Reflecting the changing nature of the industry, design advantages will include a 2:1 ratio of exhibit to meeting space, 460,000 square feet of exhibit space and a 100,000 square foot ballroom, which will be the largest in the city. This new building is targeted to open in summer 2007-on budget and 8 months ahead of schedule.

2301 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312-791-7000

Navy Pier Convention Center
For over 10 years, Navy Pier has been the place where all of the Chicago area and tourists come together to enjoy the fun and beauty of a day on Lake Michigan. Take a ride on our 15-story tall McDonald's ferris wheel. Catch a movie at the IMAX Theatre. Visit three floors of hands-on fun at the Chicago Children's Museum inside the Family Pavilion. Navy Pier has everything from bikes to books and from souvenirs to sunglasses at the retail shops in the Family Pavilion open year-round. It has over 48,000 square feet of meeting space that includes 36 meeting rooms and an 18,000 square foot Grand Ballroom offering panoramic lake views. The Grand Ballroom services banquets, performances and special exhibit needs. It has easy accessibility by taxi and charter bus drop-off locations and enclosed parking for 1,800 vehicles.

Navy Pier is comprised of 1) a Festival Hall, which has 2 exhibits halls (Hall A: 113,400 square feet; Hall B: 56,700 square feet) and 2) 36 meeting rooms, which are adjacent to Festival Hall.

600 E. Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-595-PIER

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Midwest Conference Center
Midwest Conference Center is a premiere midwestern location just 20 minutes from the heart of downtown Chicago and 10 minutes from O'Hare International Airport. It has a total of 35,000 square feet of meeting/trade show space, a 15,000 square foot column-free Ballroom with 24-foot ceilings, and an executive boardroom for high powered meetings. It provides free parking for over 550 vehicles.

Midwest Conference Center has a new 16th floor Skyline "Ballroom" surrounded by viewing windows which is available for meetings, weddings, social functions, seminars and holiday parties with affordable meeting packages.

401 West Lake Street
Northlake, IL 60164
Phone: 708-409-2828

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
The Donald E. Stephens Convention Center is located in Rosemont, Illinois, just minutes from O'Hare International Airport. The Center features 840,000 square feet of exhibition space for trade shows and public shows with parking available for 8,000 cars. A sky bridge connects the Convention Center to parking and three hotels. Formerly named the Rosemont Convention Center, it was renamed to honor Donald E. Stephens, who founded the Village of Rosemont in 1956 and has been its mayor ever since.

The Convention Center is also home to the Donald E. Stephens Museum of Hummels, which houses a thousand M. I. Hummel figurines, including one that is 8 feet tall. The museum began when Mayor Stephens donated his collection to the Village of Rosemont in 1984.

5555 N. River Road
Rosemont, IL 60018
Phone: 847-694-2220

Other convention centers in Chicago, Illinois region

The Stonegate Conference Centre
Conference Facilities

2401 West Higgins Road
Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60169
Phone: 847-884-7000
Total Meeting Sq Ft - 17,000

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Gleacher Center
Conference Facilities

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-464-8787
Meeting Rooms- 35

Schaumburg Convention Center

1551 Thoreau Drive
Schaumburg, Illinois 60173
Phone: 847-303-4100
Total Meeting Sq Ft - 20,000

Chicago Meeting Venue Spotlight

The Gleacher Center

The Gleacher Center
The Gleacher Center offers your business the perfect atmosphere to conduct an impressive meeting or event in prestigious surroundings. The Gleacher Center is located in the heart of Chicago's business community just blocks away from the Loop and steps away from the Magnificent Mile shopping, restaurants and hotels.

This beautifully designed meeting destination boasts 50,000 square feet of state-of-the-art meeting space divided up among 41 meeting rooms. Amphitheaters, with built-in LCD projectors, executive meeting rooms, reception and dining lounges, flexible breakout rooms, and a 3,000 square foot executive room for groups up to 350, provides the perfect atmosphere for the idea generation and accelerated learning.

Services include: professional conference services staff; exceptional food prepared by Wolfgang Puck Catering; State-of-the-art audiovisual equipment and technical support; and Full videoconferencing and a wide range of business center services.