Nearly three million people visit Chicago’s McCormick Place each year, most of them as attendees or exhibitors at one of the hundreds of meetings and conventions hosted by the facility. Comprised of three enormous buildings containing 112 meeting rooms and more than 2.2 million square feet of exhibit halls, McCormick Place is one of the largest convention centers in the world – and it is about to get much bigger.
This summer, a new building, McCormick Place West, will open adding 470,000 square feet of exhibit space and 250,000 square feet of meeting space, which includes a 100,000 square foot ballroom. Restaurants, cafes and bars are located throughout the complex, which is also linked by a concourse to the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel.