Tinley Park Convention Center completes expansion

October 14, 2011

The newly expanded Tinley Park Convention Center at Interstate 80 and Harlem Avenue in Tinley Park, Ill., has doubled its size and added a host of new amenities for meting, convention, tradeshow and event planners. The convention center expansion, which began in April 2010 and was completed in record time, hosted its first major convention in June 2011 with the National Council of Corvette Clubs Annual Convention, drawing in about 1,000 delegates.

“This expansion creates an enormous leap for the Convention Center’s competitive edge in the regional marketplace,” said Edward Zabrocki, Mayor of Tinley Park. “With the anticipated creation of new jobs and its effect on the local hospitality and convention services sector, the new facility is expected to bring to our area an annual economic impact of $265 million.”

Owned by the Village of Tinley Park and managed by the Mid-Con Hospitality Group, the expanded Tinley Park Convention Centerfeatures:

58,100 square feet of net contiguous exhibition space
Meeting space with 18 breakout rooms ranging in size from 750 to 4,000 sq. ft.
Ballroom configurations from 2,000 – 12,000 sq. ft. available
Full food service offerings and concessions
Business center for attendees
State of the art high-speed internet access and audio-visual equipment
1,500 free parking spaces
Attached 202-room full-service hotel

“The Tinley Park Convention Center offers easy access, state-of-the-art facilities, quality service and excellent value,” said Reva Stillman, owner/principle of Mid-Con Hospitality Group. “With over 48,000 square feet of high-ceiling exhibition space, the expanded facility allows us to add national conventions and tradeshows to sales and marketing efforts that previously were mainly targeted to local and regional groups.”

The Tinley Park Convention Center is located in Chicago’s Southland region, about 25 minutes from downtown Chicago.

“The expanded Tinley Park Convention Center meets the needs of the majority of meeting, event and convention planners, and its close proximity to restaurants, services, downtown Chicago, O’Hare and Midway Airports, and the interstate system make Tinley Park an ideal location for Midwestern meetings, events, trade shows and conferences,” said Jim Garrett, president/CEO of the Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau.