traveler24

when going to a convention, I always check the "before and after" accomodations in case I want to spend more time in the area.
These are some of my discoveries::
Feb. 24-26 Dental society convention
32,000 people expected, March 7-11 5,000 Geographic Society . March 7-12 a group is meeting of 1,200 is meeting at O'Hare and March 12-14
60,000 attendees at many downtown venues !!!!
Hope this help someone
else. I have restructured my trip to middle of March

patg

Most of the conventions are listed here
http://www.choosechicago.com/smi/calendar.cfm

Chicago typically handles 10,000-20,000 conventioneers a day. When that number gets to 40,000 or above, there may be an impact on hotels. However, please note that groups at the Rosemont/Donald Stephens Center, Oakbrook Center, Indian Lakes Resort, Pheasant Run and the new Woodfield Convention Center don't affect the downtown hotels.

bardo1

traveler24,

You've been here long enough to know better than to have a subject title so long it distrts the left column.


others,

I'm sorry for topping it.

jlm_mi

bardo - I don't think it's this topic that does it. Long subject lines are fine - it's ones that don't put spaces between words that cause problems. There's a thread about a round-the-world trip that has several cities in a row, separated by dashes instead of spaces. That's the one causing the problem.

traveler24

"patg" thanks for info about "other" convention areas-had no idea of these areas
Also I did not know there were "rules" about how many words in title/subject line....I do think it is important to put location and time frame in title... so many times I have seen subject line with just one to three words..
Plus, sometimes the left column is more narrow than others--????