nick92675 wrote:HAT TRICK. fuck that, you guys should all stay at sybaris.

This is such a fantastic idea i'm a little sad it likely won't come to pass.

Tom wrote:how far north is north?

I am at Morse and Sheridan. The hotel is just a couple blocks north of me.

nick92675 wrote:you guys should stay at the purple hotel.

That place looks amazing. I drive by there all the time wishing I had a good reason to stay there.

joesepi wrote:

Tom wrote:how far north is north?

I am at Morse and Sheridan. The hotel is just a couple blocks north of me.

nick92675 wrote:you guys should stay at the purple hotel.

That place looks amazing. I drive by there all the time wishing I had a good reason to stay there.

Interesting tidbit about the Purple Hotel - its parking lot was where mobster Allen Dorfman died from an assassin's gunfire in 1983. The crime has never been solved.

Any one of these hotels on Lincoln should suffice (I can't think of a more rock n roll way to stay in Chicago):
http://www.splotchy.com/motels/index.html

wrig wrote:Interesting tidbit about the Purple Hotel - its parking lot was where mobster Allen Dorfman died from an assassin's gunfire in 1983. The crime has never been solved.

too cool. at this moment i am sitting .5 blocks from said assasination point!

nick92675 wrote:

wrig wrote:Interesting tidbit about the Purple Hotel - its parking lot was where mobster Allen Dorfman died from an assassin's gunfire in 1983. The crime has never been solved.

too cool. at this moment i am sitting .5 blocks from said assasination point!

It also went from a Radisson to a Ramada to the Purple all within the last year or so. Sketchy. But down the street from it (west on Touhy) are the best bagels and lox schmear in the city, at New York Bagels & Bialys, open 24 hours.

dfg wrote:

nick92675 wrote:

wrig wrote:Interesting tidbit about the Purple Hotel - its parking lot was where mobster Allen Dorfman died from an assassin's gunfire in 1983. The crime has never been solved.

too cool. at this moment i am sitting .5 blocks from said assasination point!

It also went from a Radisson to a Ramada to the Purple all within the last year or so. Sketchy. But down the street from it (west on Touhy) are the best bagels and lox schmear in the city, at New York Bagels & Bialys, open 24 hours.

YES! i ate those bagels this morning. they are amazing indeed. there's a deli next door called fannie's which is also pretty good, except overpriced IMO. and the guy who works there/owns it has a terrible toupe.

Heart "O" Chicago is probably booked.

If not, I recommend it.

I don't know how to Google that.

there's a ton of hotsheet motels on the north end of lincoln avenue -- not too far from where i'm currently at, not terribly sketchy (just sketchy)... could be fun to take one of them over...

Yes! These are just up the road from where I live, and I'm quite certain that they don't get filled up when Big Chicago Events happen. There are about 10 sketchy-looking old-school motels on Lincoln Ave, beginning at Foster Ave. and dotted on both sides of the road for a mile or two.

And I'm sure they are fine places to stay, and probably reasonably priced.

nick92675 wrote:

dfg wrote:It also went from a Radisson to a Ramada to the Purple all within the last year or so. Sketchy. But down the street from it (west on Touhy) are the best bagels and lox schmear in the city, at New York Bagels & Bialys, open 24 hours.

YES! i ate those bagels this morning. they are amazing indeed. there's a deli next door called fannie's which is also pretty good, except overpriced IMO. and the guy who works there/owns it has a terrible toupe.

I could live on those bagels, except for our fucking toaster, which if run too long trips the circuit breaker and requires me to go down two floors to the basement and restore the power.

tmidgett wrote:Heart "O" Chicago is probably booked.
If not, I recommend it.
I don't know how to Google that.

If'n I recall correctly, that's the hoor-tel at Ridge/Peterson/Clark. That one and the ones on Lincoln already mentioned (and that weren't torn down in the past 10 years) are the ones I always recommend to out-of-towners who aren't staying with us, such as for the TG25 show.

I've never been to the hideout and now see that it's right off the Dan-Ryan (I 90/94) at the Armitage exit. That would actually make the Purple Hotel a somewhat logical choice in terms of transportation, if you've got a car.

Staying at the places on Lincoln would allow one to take the Lincoln bus to the Western Brown line stop, then take that to Armitage, and then grab an Armitage bus back a bit west. Or the CTA website is saying instead get off at Sedgewick and then hop on the North Ave bus.

I haven't really taken new public transportation routes since high school, so someone please let me know if I'm giving horrible and dangerous travel advice.

I just booked the Arlington Hostel thing which was recommended by the T&G website. I don't care if it's a shithole or as good as the Ritz, because I'm attending for rock only. I have a few other buddies staying there too, so it made sense to pick it.

Goddamn it, roll on September.