Chicago — James Bohan, a Packers fan from Pleasant Prairie, usually watches the NFL draft from the comfort of his couch.
But Thursday night, he was standing in a long line at the side of the plush Auditorium Theatre, waiting to get in and take a seat to watch the first round of the 2015 NFL draft.
"The draft has just escalated," Bohan said.
It sure has.
More than a half-century after the draft last played Chicago, when it was plunked down in a smoke-filled hotel ballroom where football executives pulled an all-nighter, the event returned in all its glitzy, garish, modern-day, hype-filled glory.