{"id":120,"date":"2009-03-05T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-05-17T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:16:46","slug":"location-location-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/location-location-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Location, location, location!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have location!  I have updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.eventbrite.com\/\">WordCamp Chicago registration page<\/a> with the registration information and map &#8211; &#8211; I&#8217;ll add it here, too&#8230; what&#8217;s a little overkill between friends, hey? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WordCamp Chicago<br \/>\nJune 6-7, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conferencecenteratubstower.com\">UBS Tower Conference Center<\/a><br \/>\nOne North Wacker Drive<br \/>\nMichigan Ballroom, Second Floor<br \/>\nChicago, Ill 60606<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=109424762227873131951.0004646382aa7d1c12616&amp;ll=41.882454,-87.636631&amp;spn=0.011103,0.019312&amp;t=p&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJphWab8xvtWWXZXwMuhmNJNtitABQ\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=109424762227873131951.0004646382aa7d1c12616&amp;ll=41.882454,-87.636631&amp;spn=0.011103,0.019312&amp;t=p&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I will be posting hotel information on our <a href=\"\/faq\">FAQ page<\/a> shortly.  I am working with area hotels to try and obtain special room rates for WordCamp Chicago attendees, so bear with me while I gather all of that information for you.  I have been told by a few hotel sales managers that there are at least <strong>THREE<\/strong> Starbucks between the hotels and the UBS Tower &#8211; &#8211; all within walking distance.  Whew &#8211; that was a HUGE relief, for me at least!<\/p>\n<p>One last story that needs to be told here &#8211; &#8211; the UBS Tower has a capacity for a max. of 200 attendees, so I&#8217;ve had to cap ticket registrations at 200.  If you have not registered already, please take this opportunity to do so. <\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I really want to give a big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightybytes.com\/\">Tim Frick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/armeda.com\/\">Andres Armeda (Dre) <\/a>for reaching out and providing some assistance in hunting down venue locations in the Chicago area!  An out of towner, like me, needs all the help she can get!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really excited about WordCamp Chicago!  Have you seen the <a href=\"\/speakers\">Speakers List<\/a> and the growing <a href=\"\/event-schedule\">schedule of events<\/a> yet?  <a href=\"http:\/\/briangardner.com\">Brian Gardner<\/a> has really done a fantastic job of putting together a great list of some major players (can I use the word rockstars?) in the WordPress community who are bringing their A-game to make this an event worth attending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.eventbrite.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/static\/images\/button_ext\/attend_this_event.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have location! I have updated the WordCamp Chicago registration page with the registration information and map &#8211; &#8211; I&#8217;ll add it here, too&#8230; what&#8217;s a little overkill between friends, hey? \ud83d\ude00 WordCamp Chicago June 6-7, 2009 UBS Tower Conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/location-location-location\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Location, location, location!<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3037239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,57,29,5411,5412],"tags":[5431,261,25,5529,418478],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-registration","category-speakers","category-venue-and-location","category-wcchicago-2009","tag-chicago","tag-conference","tag-wordcamp","tag-wordcamp-chicago","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v9vU-1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3037239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}