McCormick Place - Chicago, Illinois
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geobwong2k
N 41° 51.102 W 087° 37.314
16T E 448376 N 4633497
I came to the McCormick Place facility for the 2011 Annual Drug Information Association Convention. The convention was mainly located in the west building.
Waymark Code: WMBW7W
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2011
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The convention that I attended was held in the West building, one of four in the complex. Others are the North and South Buildings, and Lakeside Center. Taken together, the 2.6 million square foot McCormick Center is the largest of its kind in the United States.
The McCormick Place statistics are quite impressive. It sports:
- 2.6 million sq. ft. of exhibit halls. 1.2 million of it on one level
- 173 meeting rooms
- 600,000 square feet of meeting room space
- 4 ballrooms, 2 of which are the largest in the city
- Assembly seating for 18,000 people
- 4,249 seat theater (Arie Crown)
- 3 theaters seating 300 each
- Ceiling heights up to 50 feet
- 5,000 parking spaces
The nearby Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is the only hotel connected to McCormick Place. 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.