The agency that runs Chicago's Navy Pier and McCormick Place is feeling the pinch from the recession....
Crain's Chicago Business | Monee Fields-White | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
More than 45 million domestic and international tourists visited Chicago in 2008 and spent $11.8 billion, according to the latest figures from the Tra...
AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest. "It's like walking on ice," said ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
McCormick Place conventions and trade shows are sustaining double-digit declines in attendance this year, squeezing local hotels, restaurants and othe...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | Chicago
The view from atop the nation's tallest building is about to get even better. In June the Sears Tower will open a glass-bottom sky deck as part of a ...
Mike Doyle | Posted 02.14.2009 | Chicago
Is this just one more misguided civic attempt to whitewash--here meant very literally--the public portrait of the city being displayed to the International Olympic Committee in order to win the 2016 Olympic Games?
Financial Times | Hal Weitzman | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago
A luxury hotel might seem like a bad business to be running during an economic downturn, but Patrick Hatton, general manager of The James in downtown...
ABC News | MATTHEW JAFFE | Posted 12.30.2008 | Chicago
Despite the cold weather and biting wind, out-of-town guests, as usual, on Thanksgiving weekend, are hitting the sites in Chicago, America's third-lar...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
No one will be sadder when President-elect Barack Obama finally splits town and heads to Washington for good than the folks who run the Hilton Chicag...
David Hoyt | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
It will take a lot more than the impulse spending of a presidential entourage to provide the housing, transit, jobs, and retail amenities that are needed in the President-elect's own back yard.
Chicago Public Radio | Susie An | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago