Venue
Getting Personal: A Conference on Feminism, Rhetoric, & The Personal will be held May 6-7, 2022 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Located just minutes from downtown Chicago, McCormick Place is North America’s premier convention facility, comprising four state-of-the-art buildings and a combined total of 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space. Attracting close to 3 million visitors each year, McCormick Place is the nation’s largest convention center.
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Getting Personal will be held in the North Building, which includes 29 meeting rooms and 2 large halls that contain over 700,00 square feet of exhibit space or sizeable area, which can be easily transformed to host keynote speaker events. The North Building also includes the illustrious Grand Concourse Lobby that features over 35,000 square feet of space for registration.
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Chicago is an ideal city for Getting Personal because of its historical connection not only to the Civil Rights Movement but also to the Women’s Liberation Movement. After the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966 by prominent feminists throughout the country, Chicago served as the host city for the first national feminist conference just two years later in 1968.
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The beautiful city of Chicago comprises two major airports: O’Hare and Midway, which makes flying in and out of the city convenient for travelers. Visitors also have the option to ride the South Shoreline Train into Chicago, which is convenient for travelers who come from Indiana or Michigan, etc. To navigate throughout the city, visitors can seek public transportation such as the Metra Train and L Train as an alternative to driving or traveling via Uber or Lyft.
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Chicago is also home to or within close proximity of several universities including the University of Chicago (has a rhetoric and communication focus), University of Illinois at Chicago, and DePaul University (offers rhet/comp.)
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Click here to explore things-to-do in Chicago post-conference!
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Sources: https://www.mccormickplace.com/
https://people.howstuffworks.com/5-feminist-movements.htm
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