After two years of empty show floors and hotel rooms, McCormick Place gears up for the return of conventions to Chicago

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, a municipal corporation whose board is split between gubernatorial and mayoral appointees, owns McCormick Place, the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, the Marriott Marquis Chicago, Wintrust Arena and Navy Pier, which it leases to a not-for-profit corporation for $1 per year.