2011 Chicago Auto Show

If anyone wants to pick a day and try to go as a group please post it up. Unfortunately will not be making it this year.



Chicago Auto Show

Location - McCormick Place, 2301 South Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60616.

The Chicago Auto Show utilizes 1.2 million square feet of the McCormick Place complex. McCormick Place offers a total of 2.7 million square feet of exhibit halls with an additional 700,000 square feet of meeting room availability.


Public Show Hours (Box office closes one hour prior to the end of the show each day.)

•February 11-19: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

•February 20: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.


Admission (Advance tickets may be purchased at www.DriveChicago.com. There is no service fee and online ticket purchases are good for any public day.)

•$11 for adults

•$7 for seniors aged 62 and older

•$7 for children 7-12

•Free admission for children 6 and younger when they accompany a paying adult.

•Half-price coupons are available at participating BP gas stations. More info.

•Weekday discount coupons ($4 off the regular adult admission) available at various area new-car dealers. Participating banks also mail the discount tickets to their account holders. More info.

•School & group discounts available. More info.


Exhibits - All Chicago Auto Show exhibits are held in the McCormick Place complex. Exhibitions include: multiple world and North American introductions; a complete range of domestic and imported passenger cars and trucks; sport utility vehicles; and experimental or concept cars. In total, nearly 1,000 different vehicles will be on display. Additionally, attendees will also have the opportunity to see numerous accessories and auto-related exhibits, competition vehicles and project, antique and collector cars.


Special Days

•Tuesday, February 15: Women's Day. Women are admitted for $7. Manufacturers will present special women-oriented programs on the purchase and lease of cars and maintenance.

•Wednesday, February 16 through Friday, February 18: Chicago Auto Show Food Drive. Show patrons who bring three cans of food will receive a coupon for $7 admission. All food will be donated to A Safe Haven Foundation.

•Friday, February 18: Telemundo Hispanic Day. For more information, visit http://www.telemundochicago.com.

Appearances - Special appearances and events take place every day. Please check our Event Calendar for up-to-date listings.

Free admission for children 6 and younger when they accompany a paying adult.


doe anyone else find this phrasing funny?

Translation: Pay for Andrew (2 1/2) and do not accompany him does that mean he can just roam around all day unaccompnied because I paid for him.... that is the cheapest babysitting I ever seen!

CAMM kids day just drop all the 6 and unders off and run!

Anyone on groupon and thinking about going to the auto show today's deal is
$6 for One Ticket to the Chicago Auto Show (Up to $11 Value)

http://www.groupon.com/deals/chicago-auto-show-115?c=dnb&p=7

Dosn't someone know anybody at a Dealership. I know you can get the free passes from them.

just go into the dealership and ask... im sure they'll just give em to ya.

goin on sunday........road trip

Me and Badd Boy2 will be heading in on Sun. I want a closer look at that srt charger.

Im going wednesday the 16th

The 18 or 20th. i wanna see the new charger, and GC as soon as the hemi is available i want that thing......... the mini clubmans as well oh and that new ZL1 camaro I've never seen so much suede in a chevy in my life lol

i just want to go for all the cars..... I love Aston Martin though... and I'm hoping to tell some people at Fiat/Mopar to get rid of all those Mopar stickers on the Mopar Fiat 500 thing they've got, it looks god aweful...

haha i want a fiat 500, they are bringing the abarth edition next year, i wonder if i fit in the regular one though...

deb hannah teresa and i are going on saturday...

Trying for sat too I was thinking doing the train but I dunno

we considered that but its to cold and we arent going to wait for a bus just to get there...

The wife n I will be there Saturday too:)

We're goin Saturday

Just got home from the Auto Show. I normally park under McCormick place east (next to the lake) and leave the coats in the car. But this year we parked at the Hyatt walked 30 feet to the elevator and the rest was inside. So a few seconds of cold and an entire show with OUT lugging a coat around. Parking was $24.00 for six hours, but they have tickets on the pay machine to validate, so then it was only $18.00. Hell of a lot closer and a lot less traffic. Try it out and see how it works for you.

The Fiat/Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep area was cool they have the ride along and the Call Of Duty Jeep ( with some Girl with bad implants) there. The 2012 srt8 is on the turntable but the 2011 Charger is open on the floor. Its a good show this year.
PS whoever said something about the Clubman you will like it, I did.

Take Care
Chris

Sorry forgot about the after market stuff, you know toys for our cars. It sucked! Not much of anything, just some rims and one booth with over priced lights. I was looking forward to a better display.

Hi Yo Silver wrote:

Just got home from the Auto Show. I normally park under McCormick place east (next to the lake) and leave the coats in the car. But this year we parked at the Hyatt walked 30 feet to the elevator and the rest was inside. So a few seconds of cold and an entire show with OUT lugging a coat around. Parking was $24.00 for six hours, but they have tickets on the pay machine to validate, so then it was only $18.00. Hell of a lot closer and a lot less traffic. Try it out and see how it works for you.

The Fiat/Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep area was cool they have the ride along and the Call Of Duty Jeep ( with some Girl with bad implants) there. The 2012 srt8 is on the turntable but the 2011 Charger is open on the floor. Its a good show this year.
PS whoever said something about the Clubman you will like it, I did.

Take Care
Chris

I really do I just wish they would use a new engine, they been using the same engine since mini came back to the usa, all they keep doing is adding more boost to it, I'd love a 2.0-2.5L turbo in there vs the 1.6L if it had one of those i think i would be a subbie/evo killer

Everyone going today have a great time. Will think about you as I am chained to my desk today.

Post up some pics of the new mopars!

Crap, forgot to take pics...

I do NOT like the new Charger at all!!! Looks like a sporty sedan...not mean looking anymore.

Fidostudio wrote:

Crap, forgot to take pics...

I do NOT like the new Charger at all!!! Looks like a sporty sedan...not mean looking anymore.

I was watching the Chi. Auto Show on tv. You can vote for the best car and the new srt had 17% of the vote. Not bad.

Off to the show........