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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Attendance at the International Home & Housewares Show at McCormick Place was 46,000 this year.
(Al Podgorski/Sun-Times)
What happened to all of Chicago's conventiongoers? McCormick Place has seen nearly a third of its business vanish this decade, a period that saw two recessions. Attendance at major events in Chicago's main convention center declined from 3 million in 2001 to 2.3 million last year. Las Vegas and Orlando held up somewhat better but likewise have seen attendance fall off since the middle of the decade. But there's a silver lining for Chicago in its loss of two large conventions this month: It shows that the competing cities have space to fill.

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Developer loses control of Block 37; stores opening
A Cook County judge Friday stripped a developer of its control over the Block 37 project in the Loop. The decision came as the developer got city approval to open some of the retail space today. Circuit Court Judge Margaret Brennan handed supervision of the project to commercial broker CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. The development firm Joseph Freed and Associates LLC had run the project but is reported to have defaulted on its loans.

Wis. mulls Harley-Davidson, cheese microbe honors
Choppers and cheese may soon become official Wisconsin symbols. Bills to honor Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Lactococcus lactis -- a bacterium used in the making of cheese -- with the state symbol designation were introduced in the Legislature last week.

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