The CAC opening week celebration included a ribbon cutting media event at the height of tourist season in late August 2018.

Attended by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other civic leaders, the event kicked off a wave of media coverage that, by the end of Labor Day weekend, reached nearly 66 million impressions.

Wall-to-wall coverage in the Chicago market included all local television affiliates including this NBC5 Evening News segment on August 29, this segment on  this WGN-TV segment on the Sunday evening news on September 2, and this WTTW-TV segment on September 13.