The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Chicago (McCormick Place), IL · Illinois
- Level
- Organizer
- Issued
- 2021-05-04 May 4, 2021
- In force
- May 4, 2021 (the notice's date)
- Quarters
- 2021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Dealers and Repair Shops SEC-08
Operative words
Chicago Auto Show release (PR Newswire), '2021 Chicago Auto Show Special Edition Scheduled For July 15-19' (May 4, 2021)
Notes
2020: February 2021 show not held (Illinois Tier 3 mitigations from Nov. 20, 2020 prohibited conventions and capped gatherings). 2021: May 4, 2021: Special Edition scheduled for July 15-19, 2021 as 'one of the McCormick Place's first live, in-person events since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown', with electronic timed-entry ticketing 'designed to carefully control crowd capacity' and adherence to 'health and safety protocols and guidelines set forth by city and state officials' (Ex. SEC-08-GM-017); July 20, 2021: 'Show organizers designed an event full of pandemic safety protocols'; when Illinois entered Phase 5 'most of those protocols no longer needed to be' enforced; first-ever online-only ticketing (Ex. SEC-08-GM-018). Usual dates: Feb. 13-21, 2021 planned; held July 15-19, 2021. Scale: More than 100,000 attendees in five days (July 2021), against a ten-day February show (Ex. SEC-08-GM-018). Venue orders 2020: IL-031, IL-032, MET-CHI-016. Venue orders 2021: IL-034, MET-CHI-046, MET-CHI-035, IL-036, IL-037, MET-CHI-018, MET-CHI-031.