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Onsite Event Badging at McCormick Place, Chicago

McCormick Place is the largest convention centre in North America — a vast complex of interconnected halls on the Chicago lakefront that hosts some of the world's most significant trade shows and professional conferences. Contact Media delivers onsite, on-demand event badging at McCormick Place and across Chicago, providing the same professional, fast, and eco-friendly service we bring to events worldwide. 

McCormick Place — Scale and Capability
McCormick Place comprises four interconnected buildings — the Lakeside Center, North Building, South Building, and West Building — offering over 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space. Events at McCormick Place can involve tens of thousands of delegates across multi-day programmes. Our scalable, multi-station on-demand badging system is built for exactly this environment. 

Notable events regularly held at McCormick Place include: 

  • McCormick Place Auto Shows and major automotive trade events 
  • Chicago tech and digital industry trade shows 
  • Healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical congress events 
  • Food and hospitality industry trade events 

We are experienced in the specific logistics of deploying badging equipment within McCormick Place's large hall formats. 

Why Choose Contact Media for Chicago Events
Our on-demand badging system integrates with all major US registration platforms — Cvent, Swoogo, Eventbrite, Bizzabo, and others. Delegates scan their confirmation QR code, their record is retrieved instantly, and their personalised badge is printed in under five seconds. Multiple simultaneous printing stations keep queues minimal even during peak arrival windows. Real-time attendance dashboards give your operations team full visibility throughout. 

Eco Badging at Scale
Our A6 eco badges on recyclable card, combined with reusable lanyards and on-demand printing, significantly reduce waste — an important consideration for events at one of North America's most-visited convention venues. 

Planning an event at McCormick Place or elsewhere in Chicago? Contact our team on +44 (0)161 726 5101 — we operate internationally as standard. 

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Badges printed the moment people arrive.

Nothing pre-printed, nothing shipped, nothing to sort into pigeonholes. Each badge prints on demand at the door, with the name spelt the way the attendee typed it.

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How it works

Arrive. Print. Walk in.

We connect to your registration list live, ours or yours, so the badge that prints is always the current record — including people who registered five minutes ago.

1

Attendee arrives

They scan their confirmation, tap in their name, or are found by a member of staff — whichever suits your event.

2

Badge prints on demand

The badge prints there and then from the live record. Typos get fixed at the desk, not sent back to a print shop.

3

They walk in

No pigeonholes, no A–K / L–Z queues, no boxes of badges for people who never turned up.

Why print onsite

Pre-printing badges is work you don't need to do.

Every pre-printed badge is a guess: that the person will come, that their details won't change, that the box arrives at the right venue. Printing onsite removes the guessing.

  • No-shows cost nothing. Badges only exist for people who actually walk through the door.

  • Late registrations just work. Someone who signs up on the morning of the event gets the same badge as everyone else.

  • Nothing to ship or lose. Hardware and consumables travel with us, nothing sits in a courier depot the night before.

  • Badges feed the rest of the stack. Every badge is scannable, so exhibitors can capture leads with lead retrieval from the same system.

Prefer to run it yourself?

Hire the printers, keep the control.

If you'd rather your own team ran badge printing on the day, hire the hardware from us and self-manage. We'll supply the badge software alongside it if you want it, or you can run your own.

Not sure which way to go? Ask for both in the quote and compare.

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Dates, venue, expected attendance. That's enough for a straight answer and a price.

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