Chicago Auto Show by the Numbers
34,666,666 Number of iPod Nanos to cover the floor of McCormick Place
11,681,456 Number of dollars it would take to cover the floor of McCormick Place
10,340,000 Total pounds of freight (est.)
8,340,000 Pounds of freight unloaded & spotted the first night (16 hours)
133,333 Square yards of carpet to cover the floor of the Chicago Auto Show,
34,666,666 Number of iPod Nanos to cover the floor of McCormick Place
11,681,456 Number of dollars it would take to cover the floor of McCormick Place
10,340,000 Total pounds of freight (est.)
8,340,000 Pounds of freight unloaded & spotted the first night (16 hours)
133,333 Square yards of carpet to cover the floor of the Chicago Auto Show,
enough to carpet 571 average American homes
2,184 Number of semi-trucks to fill McCormick Place
1,700 Dedicated professional carpenters, decorators, teamsters, riggers, electricians,
cleaners, porters, crate handlers, stage hands and official contractor personnel
1,300 Hoist motors for the trusses
1,097 Tractor trailers total
866 Number of Starbucks that could fit into McCormick Place
400 Semi Tractor Trucks unloaded in the first 16 hours of the targeted freight move in
158 Total number of forklifts
68 Three-man crews to handle the first nights freight
50 Boom lifts
40 Scissors lifts
25 Sears Towers on the floor! (If you lopped the antennas off the building)
24 Times is McCormick Place the size of Wrigley Field
23 Times is McCormick Place the size of U.S. Cellular Field (for all of you Sox fans)
13 Metropolitan Opera houses would fill McCormick Place
7 Days to set up the entire show
6 Number of exhibits worked around the clock for
three days to be set for the first day of
the show's media preview
4 Hours taken to remove the cars from the show floor when we close
2 Days to completely clear the McCormick Place show floor upon closing
1 Ranking of Chicago as North America’s biggest auto show.
Also....in case you want to buy that '53 Packard from the Auto Show....
2,184 Number of semi-trucks to fill McCormick Place
1,700 Dedicated professional carpenters, decorators, teamsters, riggers, electricians,
cleaners, porters, crate handlers, stage hands and official contractor personnel
1,300 Hoist motors for the trusses
1,097 Tractor trailers total
866 Number of Starbucks that could fit into McCormick Place
400 Semi Tractor Trucks unloaded in the first 16 hours of the targeted freight move in
158 Total number of forklifts
68 Three-man crews to handle the first nights freight
50 Boom lifts
40 Scissors lifts
25 Sears Towers on the floor! (If you lopped the antennas off the building)
24 Times is McCormick Place the size of Wrigley Field
23 Times is McCormick Place the size of U.S. Cellular Field (for all of you Sox fans)
13 Metropolitan Opera houses would fill McCormick Place
7 Days to set up the entire show
6 Number of exhibits worked around the clock for
three days to be set for the first day of
the show's media preview
4 Hours taken to remove the cars from the show floor when we close
2 Days to completely clear the McCormick Place show floor upon closing
1 Ranking of Chicago as North America’s biggest auto show.
Also....in case you want to buy that '53 Packard from the Auto Show....
go over to the Volo Auto Museum.....
bring $79,500....
send me a 10% finders fee...
and drive it home today!!
Marty
Westville, IN
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