The understanding i have is that it was not hotel worrying about damage to its walls, as people have noted there are ways around, but that age old problem in Chicago, union demarkation.
Apparently things (everything) that is afixed to any wall has to be afixed by a member of the carpenters union at union minimum rates. So signage that for most cons would cost cents each to produce and display would have costs tens if not hundreds of dollars each. The result very little convention signage.
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Date: 2012-09-10 07:03 pm (UTC)Apparently things (everything) that is afixed to any wall has to be afixed by a member of the carpenters union at union minimum rates. So signage that for most cons would cost cents each to produce and display would have costs tens if not hundreds of dollars each. The result very little convention signage.