[Kngkyle]

Off to a good start....

Chicago hotel performance for the first two months of 2018 saw record growth in demand and occupancy. For the combined months of January and February hotel demand, representing the number of room nights sold, was up 12.5 percent. The record volume helped push an overall occupancy increase of 7.3 percent.

The number of people visiting Chicago for both business and leisure increased significantly in the first two months of 2018. Rooms sold associated with Group and Meetings business was up 32.8 percent in the first two months while Leisure visitor rooms consumed increased 5.9 percent - both record growth for the period.

January and February’s strong visitor numbers were driven in part by a series of major meetings and conventions hosted in the city. There were two major conventions meeting in Chicago for the very first time as well as three large meetings convening at McCormick Place this year that were not part of the meetings line up in 2017.

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/e...smRecords.html