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Important Dates

DealersEdge Webinar
Thursday, June 20, 2013

New Parts Pricing Strategies to Profitably React & Adjust to New Factory Parts Systems & Initiatives!

DealersEdge Webinar
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Free Encore Presentation of... Featuring Steve Nickelsen: How to Fine-Tune the Used Vehicle Department to Spot Weaknesses and Supercharge Results

DealersEdge Webinar
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Tips for Turning Your Quick Service Lane from a Loss Leader into a Profit Driver!​

CATA seminar: F&I sales: Make your pitch catchable
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

A free seminar to help develop selling skills, enhance communication skills and close more sales.

CATA seminar: A review of Illinois motor vehicle ad regs
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

An important presentation with officials charged with making sure the ads are compliant.​

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Chicago Automobile Trade AssociationHistory of the CATA

Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is the oldest and largest metropolitan new-car dealer association in the nation. Today, it lists 400+ new-car dealers as members.

Mission of the CATA

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 20,000 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.

2013 Chicago Auto ShowChicago Auto Show

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. This year marked the 105th edition of the show.
 
Since 1935, the CATA has had the honor of presenting the the Chicago show. Over the years it has grown with the city moving from the Colisium to the International Amphitheatre to the original McCormick Place and then to the current McCormick Place. Today, the show occupies two exibition halls with more than 1 million square feet of exibition space.
 
The CATA’s generosity and commitment to the community is shown not only at the Chicago Auto Show’s "First Look for Charity" where this year more than $2 million was raised in one night for local beneficiaries, but throughout the year in countless episodes of humanitarianism and community involvement.
 

Latest News

June 07, 2013
Lawemakers adjourn without acting on vehicle lease tax bill
The bill still can be salvaged when legislators receonvene for a brief session this fall.

June 07, 2013
6 vie for 5 seats on CATA board
Results of the balloting will be announced at the association's annual meeting, June 10 at Cog Hill Golf & Country Club.​

June 07, 2013
BBB questions dealers' claims of 'No. 1' in their advertisements
Claims of No. 1 should be made only under specific circumstances and should be based on the full geography of reports rather than part of one.

June 07, 2013
Details sought on CFPB unfair lending allegations
The CFPB is using the allegation to puch finance sources to compensate dealers with flat fees instead of dealer reserve.​

June 07, 2013
CATA offering academic scholarship to Northwood
The CATA will contribute $6,500 annually up to four years to someone for full-time study in the university's automotive marketing curriculum.

June 07, 2013
RoadDealer.com named a CATA preferred provider
The company offers an alternative auction service.

June 07, 2013
Marketplace, June 2013
Controller/CFO candidate.

May 24, 2013
Leased-vehicle taxation bill nears passage; prepare to call state reps
Legislation continues forward to base sales tax owed on leased vehicles on the monthly payment instead of the vehicle's selling price.

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