Chicago Labor Costs Drive Away Conventions
by
Ross Weber
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last modified
Nov 17, 2009 03:15 PM
On one hand, planners want to avoid truly tourist destinations, yet high production costs keep them from committing to Chicago.
Chicago is losing a premier medical trade show to Las Vegas because of the high cost of electrician services at McCormick Place, the show organizer said late Wednesday.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which held
its annual meeting at McCormick Place for the first time in April, is
taking its 2012 show to the Sands Expo and Convention Center and the
adjacent Venetian hotel.
