RE: Conference locations in the East

Ah; Sweet Home Chicago, now I remember why I moved to Florida 21 years
ago. 

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Subject: RE: Conference locations in the East

Chicago:
I'd like the fact that you could drive.
However, if I remember correctly, most of the hotels in the conference 
area charge $$/day for parking.  And lunches were quite expensive in the

past.  I do remember going out to eat at one nice Italian restaurant. 
However the local attendee who drove was quite nervous.  Seems he didn't

like the fact that we were eating quite close to someplace called
Cabrini 
Green (he had a nice car).  Sounds like our one plant in the city with
the 
bullet holes in the conference room - strays from the subsidized housing

across the street.  In Chicago, I did find one inexpensive hotel not
far. 
However the hole in the window, the stain on the floor and the fact that

the few cars on the block that still had windows in them had stickers to

be towed away was a bit disconcerting.

Rob Berendt