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Hello "VCFMW fan"!

Welcome to the new VCF Midwest Newsletter!  We outgrew the old place and now we're trying to do it ourselves.  Excuse the odd formatting and clunky graphics.  We're learning.

The new VCFMW website is up!  If you're on a desktop now, check it out and go to the mobile version later for a laugh.  If you're already on mobile, check it out and go to the desktop version later for a site that works.

At long last, we have hotel booking links!  We've arranged overflow room blocks at two nearby hotels that were friendly to our cause.  You'll find their information and booking links at the "Hotels" section of our website, but here it is now, too:

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago - Oak Brook
1909 Spring Road
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
(630) 472-6000
$135/night

Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Suites
10 Drury Lane
Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181
(630) 941-0100
$159/night

If you have any trouble booking with those links (block is full, it doesn't like the dates, etc.) please call the hotel directly!

Beyond the hotel info, the FAQ and a donation link, there isn't much more on that site...yet!  We've got a full deck of Talks that are just about scheduled (and that schedule is now full; thank you for all the great submissions) and we're waiting on the venue to tell us how many tables we'll have available to hold YOUR STUFF (and other peoples' stuff which you could potentially make YOUR STUFF.)

This concludes this late-night missive to the patient and the faithful.  For your humble correspondent, it's off to Dallas tomorrow for the first chapter of the new VCF Southwest.  Maybe we'll see you there!

- jason, just about style-sheeted out