Heads-Up on Midwest/Chicago

[Jack Jones]

Don't want to be a doom & gloom guy, but fear the new venue for the Midwest may become a logistical nightmare. It's a little too early to tell, but figured it's better to warn you to plan ahead, car pool, and start early.

The traffic is something else & I we came in at 10:00 P.M. last night! The Chicago Pavilion IS SMACK DAB downtown - parking will be limited and expensive. My hotel charges $18/day.

From what we've seen so far, Chicago is broken and nobody knows how to fix it. Our hotel, Holiday Inn-Downtown, would be fine - if you don't need coffee, hot water, and/or in-room internet. We had to call down about the ISP, they brought up a Wi-Fi transceiver - it took two hours of phone tag with StayOnline (oxymoron) to get hardwired into their hosts file - service drops every few minutes - have to recycle transceiver to gt it to go - am typing as fast as I can

Will post more after , or during, field set-up.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Jack Jones

The Chicago Pavilion IS SMACK DAB downtown - parking will be limited and expensive.

There is plenty of parking available at the Pavilion for us - unfortunately it is not free, but it's $7 which is not bad for being downtown in a very large city. See http://www.midwestfirst.org/parking.php for more details.

[Jack Jones]

As I had said, my original post may have been a bit premature.

The venu is outstanding. The field is close to the fans. The pit area is huge, compaired to Detroit, or even GLR.

Once you get off those expressways you should have no problems with traffic.

Lots of parking.