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Report: NFL Draft expected to return to Chicago in 2016

The NFL Draft is expected to return to Chicago in 2016, according to multiple sources.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel will have a press conference today in Schaumburg to announce the news, according to NFL Network's Steve Wyche.

The event will take place from April 28-30.

The NFL Draft moved from Radio City Music Hall in New York City to Chicago, where more than 225,000 fans visited Draft Town in Grant Park over a three-day period from April 30 to May 2.

2016 will mark the 10th different year Chicago has hosted the draft, as the Windy City hosted the NFL's top offseason event in 1938, 1942-1944, 1951, 1962-1964 and 2015.