McCormick Place Rooftop Garden Review

Despite the long walk enjoyed the 2020 Chicago Auto Show!

HUGE place and very well connected to its neighboring buildings makes it convenient to reach any buildings.

Beautiful place for events, big and easy to walk around. Nice views

Great convention center!! Plenty of places to sit and eat. Easy to get to from anywhere in Chicago.

I had an excellent experience at the 2020 Chicago Auto Show. The staff did an excellent job on keeping the presentation floor clean. The choice of all the food vendors were excellent and really represented Chicago s diverse food options.

Enjoy coming here. I don't like the long wait ti unload but it goes with the territory.

Great place to attend conferences, plenty of parking and only $23 for entire day.....that is excellent for parking in Chicago

Signage for parking is hard to see and seams missing in areas

Nice but No parking .
About a 3/4 Block Walk

I really don't like the parking, it's such a long walk through the dark underbelly of the place. But at least there's no homeless encampments down there anymore like there were in the 90s. Otherwise it was a decent visit to the annual sailboat show.

Parking spaces are large and the garage has a simple, easy to navigate layout. Pathways between the many exibition halls are clearly marked. Architecture is spectacular. Even a single room here is breathtakingly large.

Great place for a trade show easy to get in and out of plenty of parking.

This place is huge! We were in the West area. It worked for our conference.
The food choices here are not that great though.

Depending on where you park it can be difficult to navigate back to the lot. Not a very intuitve place for finding locations for first timers. Nice place but needs more directions.

Excellent trade show venue, very clean, staffed well, and organized. I've been to many different types of trade shows here over the years and I'm always impressed. Pro tip: the metra electric line stops under the building, take this to save on parking costs.

Always well run. Am there at least 4 times a year.

Very large event hall can be confusing to navigate inside and around the area

This show was very organized and the preliminary information was very helpful to locate specific vendors. If you have never been to a trade show I would recommend you see this one.

Venue is very spread out. Massive conferences only!

It's big big...bigggest convention center, if you visit this place entirely then no need to go for morning walk for entire week ;)

Absolutely huge meeting place, prepare for walking for miles. Quite well done and suited for meetings and conferences

The building is as good as it gets for conventions, however the cab lines are long, the buss's are full, and loading/unloading for the shows is always a bit of a pain. Lacking good information on the site of exhibitors, we had to figure everything out the hard way. Its much easier the 2nd time around when you know all the silly hoops that you have to jump thru to get anything done.

Huge line for the auto show. Luckily we had prepaid our tickets. The centre itself was not very easy to navigate and didn't not clearly provide any direction. Large And well lit though.

C2e2 is always our favorite con. There's always going to be parking issues while in Chicago, you have to plan accordingly.

ACE Hardware show convention, lots of cool new gadgets

Very nice and bootiful i vent to it avout a bonth agio

Massive indoor space for large vendor shows, including the Chicago Auto Show.

Watch out for the crazy high overpriced and mediocre food at convention center...pack a lunch

Spacious opportunity to see vendors but the crowd was not the best of the public A few too many druggies rolling the grounds and scam is rolling with the police not present Police on the outside seemed be fair but not walking with the public inside seeing the bed habits of many of the public of Chicago Is will not visit this institution again knowing that the public is allowed to be as violent as they were

Humongous place - wear comfortable shoes for sure! Restrooms are clean, temperature is warmer than I thought it d be and staff is knowledgeable and professional.

Went for the Chicago auto show. Was very clean and had great lighting.

Visited the McCormick Place for the 2020 Auto Show. I always expect it to busy and crowded because of course it's an auto show. The show was excellent seeing all the new cars and new concepts unveiled. My only gripe was the parking and getting into the show. Chicago hosts the auto show every year at the same time and you would think that getting around to get parking would improve but No no no. It took half hour to get to a parking area. One of the traffic guides mislead us back to the expressway and had blocked the entrance to head the the parking lots. After coming around again the person that threw us off the first go round was gone. Finally we get the parking lot C and it was full. This parking attendant told us to follow the cars in front to another parking lot but couldn't tell us which one. After all said and done we parked at one of the Soliders Field lots and got a shuttle ride to the McCormick place. Advice for future traffic management need to have better communication between each other and the drivers. Again the Auro Show awesome.

Very clean and organized place. The staff it's friendly and helpful, plenty of parking. Easy in and out. Always enjoy going there for the autoshow with my wife and kids.

Huge convention center. Very confusing. Clean for large halls. Parking can be difficult but expected in large cities. Automate show 2017 was impressive!

Great place for huge events...plenty of sizable rooms.

Building is nice, but parking and everything else is expensive.

I visited this place for a chemistry conference and was taken aback by the amazing architecture and design of the facility. They have a huge exposition floor and numerous rooms for presentations all over the building. The restrooms are medium sized and modern and there is copious amount of ambient light coming through the gargantuan windows surrounding the building. The location is a very short walk to Chinatown and other great places to eat.

The biggest drawbacks are the confounded street design surrounding the place, the price of parking, and the price of food. After paying several hundred dollars just to get in, I didn't expect to also pay a 50% markup just to get a coffee.

This is a massive convention centre, about the size of two football fields!

This is going way back to the winter 1995 I was work for company as truck driver we were setting up at the convention center for boat show. I were setting up when somebody tap me on my shoulder I turned around gentlemen says I'll be working with you! I said that's okay we got it, no you don't understand we're the union and I'll be helping you. having zero experience with unions at the time my supervisor who walked back to the union room he came back about 30 minutes later he simply said "I got my ass kicked" three men helped us they mostly walked away ever come back a couple hours later to do a few minutes <10min of work and then again walk away. These three Union men could not set up an aluminium 5' staircase in 8+ hr, it took me the first time 1.5hr with experience a month later down to one hour. I'm believe in unions but not when is nothing more that a no-show job. The boat show was fantastic, on couple of my days off I walked around. I don't fish but the boat show was interesting.

Best time to go is during the week. Weekends are packed.

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It's a nice place, you gotta go more than a couple times to know this place better, you have to take someone that knows the place to find parking spots, traffic puts pressure on you if you are lost lol.....