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For more than a century, the CATA has stood for high principles of business. Its basic tenets remain as steadfast today as they were a hundred years ago: promoting honesty and dependability in business operations; employing truth and accuracy in dealer advertising; standing by guarantees; improving business methods and ethics and keeping competition fair so that dealers and the public are well-served; and refraining from practices detrimental to the industry or contrary to the public interest. Currently, CATA dealerships employ more than 50,000 people in chicagoland. Over the past century, these locally based small businesses have provided good paying jobs for their employees, who, in turn, contribute to their communities. The CATA's commitment to excellence in automotive retailing remains its core value and will remain so through the next century. First staged in 1901, the chicago auto show is the largest auto show in north america and has been held more times than any other auto exposition in the world. Since 1935, the CATA has had the honor of presenting the chicago show. Over the years it has grown with the city moving from the coliseum to the international amphitheatre to the original mccormick place and then to the current mccormick place. Today, the show occupies two exhibition halls with more than 1.3 million square feet of exhibition space. The chicago auto show promotes the auto industry and the chicagoland new car dealers.

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Lobbying and legal services are paid for by the chicago auto trade association representing the issues and concerns of chicagoland new car dealers.

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Drivechicago.com, LLC (drive) is a regional, automotive internet portal linking consumers to participating automotive dealerships (subscribers). Drive lists automobiles on the website at no charge to subscribers. The web page, WWW.drivechicago.com, offers consumers information about what types of automobiles subscribers have for sale. All subscribers are located in the chicagoland area.