New Tourism Exec Talks State Budget, City Violence And Luring People To Chicago

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New Tourism Exec Talks State Budget, City Violence And Luring People To Chicago

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After several months with no CEO, Choose Chicago, the city’s tourism arm, announced that David Whitaker, a former tourism executive for Miami, Toronto and the good old US of A will lead the organization. 

Morning Shift talks to Whitaker about some of the challenges of luring people to the Windy City, including Chicago’s gun violence.