Joint Midyear Meeting
December 11 - 13, 2008
Winter CLE Fest
December 11 - 12, 2008
Sheraton Chicago
Hotel & Towers
Chicago, IL
Deadlines
Advance Registration for Joint Midyear Meeting: 4:30 PM, December 4, 2008
Advance Registration for Winter CLE Fest: December 7, 2008 |
Spend your days learning and your nights celebrating!
Explore Chicago Sites
 Lace Up Your Skates at the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink at Millennium Park
Millennium Park is an award-winning center for art, music, architecture and landscape design. The result of a unique partnership between the City of Chicago and the philanthropic community, the 24.5-acre Park features the work of world-renowned architects, planners, artists and designers. Located at the northeast end of the Park, the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink hosts more than 100,000 skaters annually. Admission to the rink is FREE and skate rentals are available for a small fee. The Rink is open daily from 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., weather permitting. While there, be sure to grab some hot cocoa and stop by and see Anish Kapoor’s hugely popular Cloud Gate sculpture. For more information visit www.millenniumpark.org.
Catch a World Class Theatre Production
Opportunities to catch a fantastic theatre or musical production abound in Chicago. Seasonal favorites include the timely tale “A Christmas Carol”, playing at the Goodman Theatre, and “Too Hot To Handel: The Jazz Gospel Messiah”, playing at the Auditorium Theatre (December 12th only) and featuring soloists, an orchestra, jazz combo, and a 150 voice choir. In the mood for a Tony Award winning musical? Catch the family favorite “Wicked” at the Oriental Theatre – Ford Center or the toe-tapping “Jersey Boys” at the Bank of America Theatre. And for those looking to have ‘The time of your life!’, check out the new production “Dirty Dancing”, playing at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. For more information please visit http://www.broadwayinchicago.com/ or http://chicago.metromix.com/theater.
Bear Down with the Chicago Bears / Score Some Hoops with the Chicago Bulls
If you’re lucky enough to find tickets, you can catch the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field playing a rare Thursday night game against the New Orleans Saints; kick-off is at 7:15 p.m. The Bulls also square off on Saturday against the New Jersey Nets at 7:30 p.m. at the United Center.
Enjoy Holiday Shopping on The Magnificent Mile
With four shopping centers, world-renowned boutiques and locally acclaimed designers, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile area is a shopper’s paradise. And when the sun goes down, witness the spectacular lighting of more than one million lights along North Michigan Avenue from Oak Street to Wacker Drive. For more information visit http://www.themagnificentmile.com/.
Celebrate the Season at Zoolights at Lincoln Park Zoo
Illuminate your winter! Meet Santa, watch ice-carving demonstrations, and marvel at more than one million lights while touring the a world of wildlife in the shadow of skyscrapers. Lincoln Park Zoo is a located just minutes north of downtown and is FREE to visitors. The ZooLights festival, presented by ComEd and Charter One, will be open to the public from 5:00 -9:00 p.m. December 12th and 13th. For more information visit www.lpzoo.org.
Taste Chicago’s Culinary Delights
 Tackle a Deep Dish Pizza, Chicago-Style
The Chicago-style “deep-dish” pizza was invented at Pizzeria Uno in Chicago in 1943. True Chicago-style pizza features a buttery crust, generous amounts of cheese and chunky tomato sauce, and is eaten with a knife and fork since its thick gooeyness makes a slice of pizza larger than eight or ten inches too messy to eat with fingers! Every Chicagoan has their favorite pizzeria; among those include Lou Malnati’s, Gino’s East, Giordano’s, Connie’s, and of course, Uno’s. Be sure to test out a slice (or two or three) while in town.
Follow Your Nose to Garret’s Popcorn Shop
“A Tradition… since 1949”, the family-owned Garret’s Popcorn Shop has been making fresh, hot-air popped popcorn and enticing passerby’s on the street to stop and in and feast on caramel, cheese, and buttery popcorn. Even Oprah selected their popcorn as one of her “Favorite Things”! With four stores downtown, be sure to stop by for this wonderful treat. For more information visit http://www.garrettpopcorn.com/.
Special Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit
“Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America” Bicentennial Tour
The “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: SELF-MADE IN AMERICA” BICENTENNIAL TOUR, a mobile museum exhibit, was developed by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield, Illinois and will travel the United States over the next two years inspiring visitors with the story of Lincoln’s life and accomplishments. The exhibit has been scheduled by the ISBA for a stop at our Meeting and will be open to visitors from December 11th – 13th. Attendance is free of charge to attendees and their guest. The only exhibit of its type in the country, the mobile museum uses an engaging mixture of interactive elements, graphics, facsimile documents and artifacts inside a 53-foot long, double expandable trailer to commemorate the Lincoln Bicentennial.
The exhibition examines Lincoln’s life from his poor beginnings to his ascension to the presidency and his assassination. Highlights include a visual recreation of Lincoln’s 1861 Farewell Address from a train car in Springfield as he left for the White House, and the award-winning “The Civil War in Four Minutes” video presentation.
The “Self-Made in America” mobile exhibit was funded in part by a grant from the Illinois Bureau of Tourism, with corporate sponsorships being sought. It was developed by ALPLM curators and historians working in concert with Mobility Resource Associates. The exhibit debuted April 27, 2008 at the American Association of Museums Convention in Denver, and is visiting key Bicentennial events through August 2010, as well as the 2008 national political conventions, major sporting events, elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and other venues.
To learn more about Chicago’s wide array of events, sights, and restaurant options – including hot spots, local favorites, kid-friendly places, and a variety of cultural fare – visit http://chicago.metromix.com or http://chicago.citysearch.com. |
