Martian, I'm sure flying out there would be fairly cheap as well....in the worst-case scenario. Maybe there's even a bus route.
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Now that this is starting to shape up, can you local Chicagoians (Chicagoites? Chicagoers? Chicagoivians?) start making recommendations for places to stay?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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