Location and Lodging

Location

Friday night registration, reception and dinner will by held at the Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club. Saturday and Sunday talks and poster sessions will be held in the Lurie Medical Research Building on the Northwestern University, Chicago Campus.

Parking is available in the adjacent Ontario & Fairbanks Parking garage.  Daily costs for parking at the hotel or NU parking garage is $30-40 per day.  A prepaid daily parking voucher is available for use at the Ontario & Fairbanks parking garage.  To obtain prepaid vouchers for your stay, please include $5.75 for each day you plan on parking within the garage (ie…$5.75 X 3 = $17.25) with your registration fee.  The prepaid parking vouchers can be picked up at the conference registration table.  Present the vouchers to the garage staff when exiting the garage.

Lodging

Blocks of rooms for the conference have been reserved at the Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club:

Conference rate of $179 per room per night plus all applicable taxes.  In order to facilitate the handling of reservations, all reservations must be made by August 29, 2007.

When making reservations online, please click on the following link to access the hotel’s reservation page.  Hotel online reservations click here.

When making reservations by phone you must mention the group name in order to receive the group rates.

Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club

300 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60611

Reservations: phone-312-787-6100 or fax-312-787-6238

For maps and directions to the Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club, please click here.

Local Chicago Sites, Attractions and Information

For information on Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, site of this year’s conference,  and its restaurants, events and activities, please click here.