May 2006
Advertorial
City Insider: Rosemont, IL

Donald E. Stephens Convention and Conference Center
Exhibit space: 840,000 square feet of flexible exhibition space across six halls, which can accommodate between 100 and 3,500 booths

Meeting space: 92,000 square feet of meeting space, including the recent 40,000-square-foot expansion of the Conference Center. There are 50 meeting rooms, ranging in size from 345 square feet to a 30,000-square-foot ballroom that can accommodate 3,000 banquet style and 4,000 theater style. There’s also a luxuriously-appointed VIP board room. In addition, the Allstate Arena is less than three miles away and offers 18,000 seats. The 4,400-seat Rosemont Theatre is also directly across the street. 

Special features: The facility is completely wired for high-speed Internet access. An 8,000-car parking garage is available and connected via the temperature-controlled Rosemont Skybridge Network.

Hotels: The Village of Rosemont offers more than 5,600 hotel rooms in the city and an additional 2,870 hotel rooms within the immediate surrounding area for a total of nearly 8,000 rooms in a three-mile radius of the center. Nearly 2,000 rooms are directly across the street from the center and connected via skybridge.

Making it easy to do business
• Rosemont Exposition Services provides on-site convention services expertise to make your next event stress free, including: strategic planning, complete and detailed exhibitor manuals, comprehensive on-site services and supervision, and a vast inventory of state-of-the-art exhibit equipment.

• Rosemont catering is a full-service, in-house food service provider that can accommodate every kind of requirement — from simple breaks to on-floor provisions to large banquets.

Visitor attractions
• Rosemont offers a number of world-class restaurants perfectly suited for business dinners or just kicking back after a long day at the show. They include Harry Caray’s, Morton’s, Gibson’s, Nick’s Fishmarket, Rosewood and Carlucci’s — to name a few.

• The Donald E. Stephens Museum of Hummels, the largest public display of these famous figurines in the world, is just steps away from the convention center.

• All that downtown Chicago has to offer, from famous museums to the Magnificent Mile of shopping. It’s just 20 minutes from Rosemont and accessible by public transit.

Why Rosemont?
• Meetings, conventions and trade shows are Rosemont’s No. 1 business. The entire Village of Rosemont is dedicated to serving meeting planners and show managers, as well as their exhibitors and delegates.

• Rosemont is only five minutes from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. It’s also at the crossroads of Chicago’s major expressway and tollway systems, making it easy for attendees, exhibitors and freight to come and go from the center.

Contact us
Grant Bailey, Executive Director
Rosemont Convention Bureau
9301 W. Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, IL 60018
(847) 823-2100, www.rosemont.com