In 1971, when I was getting started as a reporter, the Billy Graham Crusade was scheduled to come to Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place for a week-and-a-half of summer services.

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Thousands of Chicago area students and teachers participated in the launch event at McCormick Place.

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My second immersion into union logic occurred in Chicago in the early 1990s, during a computer trade show at McCormick Place.

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