City’s Tourism Arm Lobbies For New 1.5% Hotel Tax (November 11, 2024)

Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism arm, is aiming to bolster its resources through an additional hotel tax. 

The measure would tack a 1.5% surcharge on room rates for stays at downtown hotels with at least 100 rooms and generate about $50M in new revenue to use on tourism promotion, Crain’s Chicago Business reports.

The new tourism district, which would require…