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The city of big shoulders because all the audience wouldnt be distracted by the las vegas and theme parks in dandy world but it is a problem for the state of illinois because the convention business is responsible for 66,000 jobs and $25 million in tax revenue, martha. martha: wow, that is striking. $1200, to hook up a computer. that is unbelievable. so, what is the law really going to do? what impact will it have, mike. >> reporter: well, they are calling it the exhibitors bill of rights and wh...

Exhibitors bill of rights. under the old rules if they wanted to get their exhibit here they had to pay the teamsters to haul the exhibit. once they were here you had to pay the union to set it up the whole thing became cost prohibitive. >> intestified a few hundred dollar charge, that person is spending $1,200 to have a computer connected to the internet. >> reporter: the exhibitors have the right to use their own contractors. the convention and visitors bureau is predicting a billion dollar wi...

And unions when they do their own contract they have to follow the law we put in which says you cant over charge for carpenters, you cant over charge for the teamsters having too many people working on your projects, before this law was passed, chicago in particular, in which 66,000 jobs depends on the conventions was steadily losing business to las vegas and orlando as you mentioned, all of that despite the fact that the exhibiters preferred chicago because the audience didnt all distracted by ...