Chicago loses plastics convention to Orlando

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

Chicago has lost yet another key convention as the plastics trade group announced it’s moving its 2012 and 2015 gathering to Orlando.

Chicago has hosted the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.’s national show, which is produced every three years, since 1971.

The decision, announced Tuesday, comes within a week after the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society said it was taking its 2012 event to Las Vegas.

SPI President and CEO Bill Carteaux, in an email to SPI board members Tuesday, said cost savings was key.

I guess not everyone wants to hold a convention in former Chicago Mafia politician Fred Roti's old stomping ground. For a look at a history of Chicago Mob control of Chicago's union movement click on this RICO complaint.