The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, commonly known as MPEA or McPier, is a corporation that owns

Navy Pier Navy Pier is a pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Navy Pier encompasses over of parks, gardens, shops, restaurants, famil ...

and

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. It also manages the city's collection of

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for vehicles picking up passengers (including

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es,

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s and

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) for

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and

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. MPEA was created by the

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in 1989 by the "Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act". The authority's responsibilities in the McCormick Place campus include the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel and the Marriott Marquis Chicago hotel. In 2011, the MPEA handed over operations of Navy Pier to the newly established Navy Pier Inc, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and hired a world-wide venue management company, SMG, to run the operations of McCormick Place. In 2017, MPEA completed the 10,000-seat

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adjacent to McCormick Place as well as an additional hotel tower. It became home to the men's and

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basketball teams of

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as well as hosting other events.

References

External links

Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority

Navy Pier

McCormick Place
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