Today, fans of CNBC’s Fast Money started lining up at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theater four hours before airtime to get tickets for the live, Windy City edition of the Dylan Ratigan-anchored, New York-based program. It was a crowd EP Mary Duffy says numbered 2,000.
So why all the enthusiasm? It’s “evidence of the success (of Fast Money‘s) mission,” Ratigan tells TVNewser. A mission to make “the inaccessible and the esoteric and the boring…accessible, useful, and entertaining.”
The Fast Money traders were on hand, too, for a focus on the agricultural boom, Chicago’s financial markets, and corporations headquartered in Chicago. Guests included Playboy CEO Christie Hefner and CNBC’s Suze Orman, a Windy City native recently named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People.
Ratigan also reported live today from Chicago for The Call, Power Lunch, and Closing Bell.
Additional pictures after the jump…
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(photos by Alissa Krinsky)
The Fast Money gang on-set.
Suze Orman backstage.
The audience at the Cadillac Palace Theater.