Black Women's Expo

CTL-E-0081 · Event

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Combined Graph record U-01614 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0081. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

McCormick Place; Black women entrepreneurs

Sources

• The Black Women's Expo / BWe Next (organizer, tier-2), bwenext.com/news-media/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

The Black Women's Expo (BWe Next) is an annual expo founded and executive-produced by Merry Green, held at McCormick Place, Chicago (the 29th Annual edition ran Aug. 2-4, 2024, at McCormick Place, 2301 S. Martin Luther King Drive, North Building Hall C-1). Founder's stated purpose, quoted by the organizer: to 'celebrate and uplift Black women and their entrepreneurial endeavors'; the show floor carries 400+ exhibitors including an Entrepreneurship pavilion. Stored note 'McCormick Place; Black women entrepreneurs' is confirmed. No founding year is claimed: the organizer's '29th Annual' in 2024 does not by itself fix a first year.

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