Notable among the NFL's requests are:
· Cordoning off stretches of road around Grant Park and Congress Plaza, including a key stretch of Congress Parkway between Michigan Avenue and Wabash Avenue, for nearly three weeks.
· Free use of the Auditorium Theatre and other spaces owned by Roosevelt University from April 19 to May 6, free WiFi and other technology for the NFL and its partners at all locations and free parking for NFL staff, TV crews and production trucks.
· Free parking at draft venues and free police escorts for prospective draft picks and NFL "dignitaries."
· Creation and enforcement of a "clean zone" city ordinance banning temporary commercial activity in and near draft venues.
· City "resources" to help keep unofficial advertising away from the made-for-TV event, otherwise known as ambush marketing.
· Outdoor space for a "village" for about 15 "sponsor activation zones" and football fields for youth clinics and events for five days. Also, three "Party Spaces" for NFL events: one for 150 people that serves Anheuser-Busch brewing products, one for up to 700 people with concert space April 29 and one for 250 people for a lunch with television shooting capability.
· Along with Choose Chicago, promotional material and signage worth at least $4 million.
· Commitment to host the 2016 NFL draft (this was agreed to by the city, documents show), if the NFL decides to keep it in Chicago.
· Commitments from 13 hotels to reserve rooms for prospective players, NFL staff and others. Chicago's bid included hundreds of pages from hotels outlining their reserved room rates.
. Or Detroit, or anywhere else in that region .....
