AMERICAS - The largest, convention and exhibition centre in the US, Chicago’s McCormick Place, has won the right to host President Barack Obama’s election night rally.
The centre was chosen to ease concerns over weather and security, its organiser has said.
The rally, where Obama claimed victory in the Presidential election in 2008, was held outside in Grant Park and an estimated 240,000 people attended. Obama worked as a lawyer in Chicago and represented Illinois in the Senate.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Summit was held at the centre in May 2012 and an increased amount of security was used due to the event being deemed by the Department of Homeland Security as a ‘national special security event’. President Obama’s rally is expected to have the same security level.
Last month, the organiser of the Democratic National Convention moved the President’s nomination acceptance speech from the outdoor Bank of America Stadium to Charlotte’s indoor Time Warner Cable Arena after there were concerns over bad weather.
Three of America’s leading trade shows recently extended their tenure in Chicago.
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