PACK EXPO 2026 Transportation

About PACK EXPO at McCormick Place

PACK EXPO is the packaging and processing trade show run by PMMI, and its largest U.S. edition — PACK EXPO International — takes over McCormick Place in the fall of even-numbered years. It fills the South and Lakeside buildings with packaging machinery, materials, and automation, drawing tens of thousands of manufacturing and supply-chain buyers and exhibitors. The machinery focus means a lot of exhibitor staff working long booth days and buyers running tight meeting schedules across the halls.

McCormick Place is the largest convention center in North America, spread across four connected buildings on the Near South Side, and the entrances are far apart — the South Building, Lakeside Center, West Building, and Wintrust Arena each have their own drive. Our drivers confirm which hall your meetings or booth are in before pickup so you're dropped at the right door instead of walking the connector bridges with samples. Show-day curb traffic at McCormick is heavy, so we stage off the main approaches and pull up on a text rather than circling the drop-off lanes.

The center sits minutes off Lake Shore Drive and I-55, so O'Hare runs are a flat $130 sedan and Midway $130 — the close one for South Side hotels. For exhibitor teams we set up multi-day accounts: daily hotel-to-McCormick shuttles for booth staff, sedans and SUVs for executives and client dinners downtown, and one billing contact for the week. Buyers attending for a day or two usually book round-trip airport transfers plus an evening car for client meals in the West Loop or River North.