The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the National Football League will announce within the hour that the league’s glitzy, multiday player draft is returning to Chicago for a second year. When the event was held in Chicago this spring, it marked the first time in more than a half-century that any city other than New York had played host. The 2016 spectacle is reportedly set to run April 28-30. The Chicago Tribune has reported that 200,000 visitors attended a free fan festival tied to the 2015 draft and noted that a university study pegged the draft’s direct economic impact on Chicago at nearly $44 million, including hotel and restaurant revenue, sales-tax revenue and temporary jobs created.
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