Published rental range: $120,000 - $250,000
A 30x40 island is a pavilion, 1,200 square feet of open floor that turns your exhibit into the landmark of its hall and gives a market-leading brand the room to operate at full scale on the McCormick Place floor. At this size the design brief is genuinely architectural: we lay out a pavilion with a clear circulation spine, three to four enclosed meeting rooms, a seated presentation theater anchored by a large LED wall and audio, a hospitality lounge that rewards your best prospects with a place to sit and stay, and expansive open product and demonstration zones that draw and hold traffic from every aisle. This is the footprint chosen by companies that want to own the conversation at the biggest Chicago events, IMTS, RSNA, PACK EXPO, and the National Restaurant Association Show, where a pavilion communicates leadership before a single word is spoken. We engineer the 30x40 as a fully custom-fabricated structure, integrating dimensional architecture, finished millwork, backlit features, and a managed media system, while keeping enough modularity that the program remains a rentable, reconfigurable asset rather than a one-time build. A commanding structural hanging sign marks your location across the room, and consistent with Chicago show-floor best practice we keep the ceilings open and avoid heavy truss so the pavilion reads as premium brand architecture, bright and walkable, instead of industrial scaffolding. Technology is woven throughout: a large central LED wall for the theater, secondary screens in meeting rooms and at demo pods, integrated audio, and digital signage, all with power and data engineered into the structure and tested before the doors open. Every surface graphic is produced in-house using large-format silicone edge fabric, dye-sublimation, dimensional logos, and backlighting so the environment photographs beautifully for the content you will harvest from the show. Operationally, a 30x40 lets your team run a full sales floor: scheduled theater presentations to crowds, private executive meetings in closed rooms, live product demonstrations in the open, dedicated lead capture, and hospitality, all at once across a multi-day run. The published rental range of $120,000 to $250,000 reflects how far you scale these systems: the base delivers a pavilion with three enclosed rooms, a demo theater, and a large LED feature, while the upper band adds a hospitality lounge, a richer media package, premium materials and flooring, and deeper architectural detailing. A pavilion carries significant McCormick Place rigging, electrical, and multi-day install labor under the hall's jurisdiction, so we build and manage a detailed labor, freight, and electrical plan against targeted move-in windows and run a full pre-show staging review to de-risk the build. Expect a ten-to-twelve-week lead time and a two-and-a-half-to-three-day install with a six-to-eight-person crew. Renting keeps a quarter-million-dollar asset off your balance sheet, eliminates storage and maintenance of a large structure, and lets you evolve a market-leader presence every year while we refurbish and store the system. Request a free 3D rendering and we will design your pavilion in full.
A 30x40 island trade show exhibit rental in Chicago is published at $120,000 to $250,000. The base covers a pavilion with three enclosed rooms, a demo theater, and a large LED feature; the upper band adds a hospitality lounge, double-deck consideration, premium materials, and a full media system.
Yes. At 1,200 square feet a 30x40 comfortably hosts a seated presentation theater with an LED wall and audio plus separate meeting rooms and open demo zones, which is ideal for scheduled sessions at large McCormick Place shows.
A pavilion of this size carries significant rigging, electrical, and multi-day install labor under McCormick Place jurisdiction. We produce a detailed labor, freight, and electrical plan and manage it against targeted move-in windows to keep the program on budget.
Begin ten to twelve weeks before move-in. A pavilion needs design iteration, structural engineering, graphics production, a media build, and a pre-show staging review so the install runs predictably on the floor.
Renting a pavilion keeps a quarter-million-dollar asset off your books, removes the burden of storing and maintaining a large structure, and lets you evolve a market-leader presence each year while we refurbish and store the system between Chicago shows.
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