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It isn't just Chicago either. From my experience with Las Vegas, Anaheim, Dallas & New Orleans convention centers, the unions there are all are a bunch of scam artists. We used to truck a large trade publication to these conventions; we now do a CD instead. Last time we took the paper edition to Anaheim from Florida it cost $1200 to truck it there and $1700 to get it from the loading dock to the booth. A few minutes with a small front end loader. What a rip-off! We changed to a CD and carry them in our selves.

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Someone here on FR posted, IIRC, that they were at a trade show in Vegas and the union wouldn't let them plug in their own equipment. They had to get an electrician there to plug it in for them and it cost them 50 bucks to do so. Cripes, my house must be ready to explode with all the electrical outlet/electronic equipment interfaces I have running there.