AMERICAS - The Black Women’s Expo returns to McCormick Place in Chicago this year.
The expo returns to McCormick Place on 5-7 April after a hiatus last year. In 2006, considered to the show’s peak year, it was attended by 20,000 visitors.
The organiser confirmed Detroit-based Real Times Media (RTM), the owner of the Chicago Defender and five other newspapers at black communities in the US, as well the Who’s Who diversity-themed publications, has come on board as an investment partner.
According to reports in the US, RTM aims to turn the event into a show aimed at Midwest tourism destinations.
“There’s no reason this can’t be comparable to the Essence Jazz Festival,” RTM CEO Hiram Jackson told the Chicago-Sun Times newspaper. “We’re in this for the next 20 years, and we’re going to make sure that in July, people can go to New Orleans, but in the spring, they have to come to Chicago.”
McCormick Place hosts Reed Travel Exhibitions’ AIBTM tradeshow on 11-13 June.
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