As the excitement gathers for our upcoming weekend in Chicago, the news is rolling in from Chicago WordCampers on some organized meet ups and places to go to meet, greet and eat. I’ll keep this post updated with additional news as it comes in – but here’s the 411 on what I know so far:
- Friday June 5th – for those of you who are rolling into Chicago the night before:
- The folks from WebDevStudios is hosting a Pizza Party: “Lou Malnati’s Fri night, WDS is buying the pizza so come out and get a slice or ten!
- Bruce Montgomery sent this message in yesterday: “I am inviting all WordCamp attendees and every other WordPress geek in Chicago to come out to meet, greet, drink and eat on Friday June 5 from 5:30pm to 9pm at Jimmy Fig’s Bar and Eatery located just around the corner from UBS Tower at 160 N. Franklin just north of the corner of Randolph and Franklin. Come on out to welcome the WordCampers to Chicago!”
- Saturday June 6th – the official WordCamp Chicago meetup is at Morton’s Steakhouse at 6:00 for dinner/drinks. 65 E Wacker Place – Chicago. It’s about 5 minutes from the UBS Tower Center. Big thanks to Liz Strauss for working to reserve a special room for us at Morton’s! Come for drinks – stay for dinner! (note: if staying for dinner, expect to spend approx. $40 – 60 per person, on average)
- Sunday June 7th – David Dalka will be at Portillo’s at 100 West Ontario, to experience the rare Chicago food delicacy known as Italian Beef. He welcomes fellow foodies to go on this excursion with him as well. Please tweet “@dalka Portillo’s Sunday #wcchicago if you want to go.
If you know of, or are hosting, any other meet ups – – let me know and I’ll try and update this post as I hear of more: lisa AT lisasabin-wilson DOT com.
Otherwise – it’s a good thing to follow the official WordCamp Chicago hashstag on Twitter to really learn about all the updates and goings on this weekend in real time: #wcchicago
As for me, I will be at Lou Malnati’s on Friday night and Morton’s Steakhouse Saturday night – – what have YOU got planned??
The rumor mill has told me:
- Cory Miller from iThemes will be rolling into Chicago on Thursday.
- Jacob Santos will be joining us for dinner at Morton’s Saturday night.
- Erin Blaskie is driving in from Ottowa – and hitting to Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland before landing in Chicago!
- This weekend at WordCamp Chicago, Jeremy Wright will also be celebrating his 30th birthday! Happy Birthday, Jeremy!
- Grant Gannon wants to wear a t-shirt this weekend that says “I know @bgardner“
- Deanne Thomas will be there
- Melissa Feeney is wearing something between casual and dressy – casual chic?
Subscribe to the #wcchicago hashtag on Twitter and YOU can get all the WordCamp Chicago gossip, too! Also, be sure to use #wcchicago when you tweet about the event so everyone can stay in the loop.
The loop! The Chicago Loop……..The WordPress Loop – – I crack myself up! See you there 🙂
Do we have a time on the Pizza Party?
We’ll probably hit the Pizza spot around 7-8pm Chicago time. Just to clarify this is the location:
http://www.loumalnatis.com/Locations/Details.aspx?ID=7
Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
I should be in Chicago around 6 or 7pm on Friday until around Noon or 2pm on Monday. I will hopefully be coming to the Pizza thing on Friday with my wife. Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, I might be running around touring Chicago with her since it will be our only real vacation. If anyone else is doing the tourist thing and wants to go somewhere together (groups can be more fun), let me know.
Great! I’ll be there. The pizza party sounds fun!
Pretty bummed that I wasn’t able to fit this into my schedule, but I’ll be following the tweets and blog posts throughout the weekend.
By the way, if you want an easy to go back and digest hashtagged tweets, check out the transcript generator at What the Hashtag: http://wthashtag.com/wcchicago
You can also see stats for #wcchicago related to how much it was used and by whom.
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