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• Daley proposes taxpayers subsidize McCormick unions

  —illinoisreview

  Number of comments: 3
  Let's get this straight. McCormick Place, which is run by political appointees and controlled by the unions, finds itself cash-strapped because the trade show organizers finally got tired of the Chicago shakedown and took their business elsewhere...and Daley wants to subsidize it further with more' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:36pm EST
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• Mayor Daley denounces price gouging at city's convention center

  —Marathon Pundit

  One of the key cogs of the Daley political machine is organized labor, which supplies cash and foot soldiers for the Democrats' efforts in Chicago and suburban Cook County.
  
  But even Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says "enough" to union price gouging at McCormick Place, the' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:14am EST
  

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• Huh?

  —Second City Cop

  Someone send Shortshanks in for a dope test:
  

  Mayor Daley today cracked the door open to providing a government subsidy for cash-strapped McCormick Place, but only if the convention center cleans its own house first and ends price gouging that has triggered a trade show exodus.

  “If it [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:05am EST
  

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• Daley says private trade show managers need to do their part to cut costs at McCormick Place

  —Clout St

  Posted by John Byrne at 3:40 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley today called on private-sector managers of McCormick Place trade shows to join unions and convention center officials in finding a way to hold down costs to stem the defection of...

  
  

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:41pm EST
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• Electrical services costs at Chicago trade show "four to eight times" what they were in Orlando

  —Marathon Pundit

  Union apologists in Chicago have been telling anyone who will listen that it is not the fault of organized labor that it cost $345 to transport four cases of Pepsi from the front doors of McCormick Place to an exhibitor's booth at the International Plastics Show in [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:31am EST
  

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• Daley holds meeting on convention show exodus

  —Clout St

  UPDATE AT 6:01 p.m. by John Byrne Mayor Richard Daley called labor leaders and McCormick Place officials into his office for a closed-door meeting today to talk about stopping the exodus of high profile trade shows to other cities by...

  
  

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:55pm EST
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• Morning Shorts

  —Capitol Fax

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  * What happened to all of Chicago’s conventiongoers? McCormick Place has seen nearly a third of its business vanish this decade, a period that saw two recessions. Attendance at major events in Chicago’s main convention center declined from 3 million in 2001 to 2.3 million last year. Las Vegas and Orlando [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:52am EST
  by Mike Murray

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• McCormick Place is "Broken"

  —Second City Cop

  Welcome to the party, pal:
  For the third time in two weeks, the high cost of doing business with McCormick Place has cost the city another important trade show.
  
  Now Jerry Roper, one of the most respected convention veterans in Chicago, is not pulling any punches as he [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:17am EST
  

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