Question for the Chicago folks

[Tony Gordon]

"Trail of Tears Skyway" -- I love it! I often find people lost in there. I've always wondered how a walk across the street can take so long and be sooo tiring.

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Originally Posted by Tony Gordon

"Trail of Tears Skyway" -- I love it! I often find people lost in there. I've always wondered how a walk across the street can take so long and be sooo tiring.

What is this?

[Tony Gordon]

It's a walkway from the parking lot and/or I believe Embassy Suites that goes over River Road and winds its way into the convention center.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Tony Gordon

It's a walkway from the parking lot and/or I believe Embassy Suites that goes over River Road and winds its way into the convention center.

...and a working example of the "greenhouse effect."

[autograf]

Saw Wilt Chamberlain walking down that way once. And no, he didn't have a naked woman with him. I think we're (HRBAKER, et al) at the Hampton Inn around the corner. The Embassy there is okay. I got the Hyatt once on a Priceline.com for $40.00. That was sweet. Not the National though..........

[Jewish-collector]

I guess I better book the hotel soon. It's only a little more than 2 months away.

[tbob]

I booked my hotel for the Convention last night since I didn't want to wait until the last minute and end up a great distance from the show. When I attempted to book a room through the National Convention website it kept coming up "no rooms available" for several that were suggested so I went to the Hilton website and using my AAA discount card got a nice room at the Rosemont Hilton (used to to be the Sofitel). This is one of the hotels which is connected by the Skyway. I stayed there about 4 years ago when the show was in Chicago and it was a nice hotel, since then Hilton has bought it and refurbished it. The price was reasonable and I recommend it to anyone looking for a hotel near the show.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by autograf

Saw Wilt Chamberlain walking down that way once. And no, he didn't have a naked woman with him. I think we're (HRBAKER, et al) at the Hampton Inn around the corner. The Embassy there is okay. I got the Hyatt once on a Priceline.com for $40.00. That was sweet. Not the National though..........

I've think I've told this story before -- but I love it because it's a chance to name drop

When I was doing the US Tennis Open as a statistician in the 1980's -- Wilt always attended because he loved watching women's tennis (no jokes please)

One day, I was doing stats on what was then court 3 and there was supposed to be a guard there to make sure the press people could have their own place. The guard never showed up and we didn't have many people in the press area -- and while I was trying to keep the stats on the match, I also had to act as the security guard.

Wilt saw what was occuring and after about 5 minutes I had the tallest security guard in the buisness helping to keep order in the press area. During the breaks we would have nice conversations as well about tennis. BTW -- Wilt each year was given a CBS televsion badge.

It really was an enjoyable afternoon and I gained a ton of respect for him because he made sure that *I" could do my job

Rich