This year will be the 23rd annual celebration of the U.S. pinball exposition that each year tries to offer something special for everyone. Expo 2007 takes place in Rosemont, Illinois and will run Thursday October 25 to Sunday October 28 at the Wyndham O'Hare Hotel.

http://www.pinballexpo.net/

Show Hours
Saturday 10AM- 8PM
Sunday 11AM- 6PM

Venue Name and Address
McCormick Place/ Lakeside
2301 S. Lake Shore
Drive Chicago IL 60616

Admission
$19 Membership Fast Pass
$10 Day Pass
$14 Membership Fastpass for Public Transit/Seniors/Students with ID/bike riders (at door)
$5 Public Transit/Seniors/Students with ID/Bike Riders (day pass at door)
FREE -- Children under 12

The Green Festival and Conscious Alliance are proud to announce that we will be hosting a Food Drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository on April 21st and 22nd, 2007 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. All patrons attending the festival that donate 10 non-perishable food items will receive a limited-edition poster by artist, Scott Saw. All posters are printed on an environmentally friendly, post-consumer waste paper.

The Conscious Alliance strongly encourages that all food donations be low-sodium health food oriented products. Ramen noodles will not be accepted in exchange for this year’s Green Festival Poster.

Thank you for your continued support in feeding the hungry! www.consciousalliance.org

Celebrate Earth Day at Green Festival

Same Great Event - Great New City!

Experience Green Festival in one of the greenest cities in the nation. The Great Lakes are home to some of the most innovative and cutting-edge green technologies, products and services— the perfect place to find great ways to green your life.

Take in more than 300 exhibits in the nation’s largest eco-mall:

* Shop for everything from eco-fashion and natural home and health products to solar panels and fair trade gifts and crafts.
* Discover new techniques and strategies at great how-to workshops.
* Network at green career and green investing sessions.
* Green your home and save energy at the City of Chicago Pavilion.
* Find local organic farmers at the FamilyFarmed Pavilion.
* Let your kids play at the Organic Valley of Family Farms' Kids’ Zone.
* Enjoy organic dining and sample local beers & wines.
* Hear great, live local music.

See more than 150 dynamic speakers on 5 stages:

• Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
• Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse
• Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti
• Frances Moore Lappé, Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
• Richard M. Daley, Chicago Mayor (Invited)
• Judy Wicks, White Dog Enterprises, Inc.
• David Korten, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
• Omar Freilla, Director of Green Worker Cooperatives
• And many more (check our site for updates)

Interested in learning more about this premier green event? Click on the “GreenFestival Radio” button and experience past Green Festivals first hand!

Please check our website regularly for updated speaker, exhibitor and ticketing information. Ticket sales will be online by February 28th for the Chicago Festival.

The city of Rosemont and Donald E. Stephens Convention Center are looking forward to welcoming the 22nd iHobby Expo™ in October 2006.

As an exhibitor or attendee, tradeshows give you a competitive advantage by building relationships face-to-face which makes a lasting impression on both sides of the aisle. So we invite you to take this step to build your business and if you haven’t done it already, circle October 19 - 22nd 2006 on your calendar. Make plans to attend as a retailer, distributor or exhibitor and book your space today!

The show is open to the TRADE ONLY on Thursday and Friday - October 19th & 20th
and to both the TRADE & PUBLIC October 21st & 22nd 2006.

Over 5000 square feet of detailed custom model train layouts, scenery and miniatures in addition to hundreds of displays of die-cast, collectibles, slot cars and tracks, tools, educational games, videos will be presented. Multiple "Make & Take" areas for plastics, airplanes, rocketry and trains are also planned to get consumers involved in hobbies right at the show.

No one knows your product or service better than you! iHobby Expo™ gives you a great forum to share your ideas, showcase new products, test market and learn from fellow suppliers and dealers at a respected show that is full of new and exciting features. Please join us!

http://www.ihobbyexpo.com/

Chi-TAG is the only non-hobby toy and game fair to be open to consumers in the United States. You can preview, play and purchase the hottest, coolest, current and future toy and game classics from around the world and meet inventors. Be a piece on a lifesize game board or enter the Amazing Tournament and test your skills. Friday night is game night for singles and adults who want to meet new people. Come enjoy drinks, games and tournaments at The Chicago International Toy and Game Fair located at the new Schaumburg Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center (1551 Thoreau Drive, Schaumburg, IL)

Friday, Nov 17 4pm - 10pm
Saturday, Nov 18 10am - 7pm
Sunday, Nov 19 10am - 6pm

$5 per person, $10 per family!

For more information call 847-677-8277 or visit www.chitag.com

Ignite the Passion

Invent • Create • Produce
17th Unisource Annual Report Show and Paper Fair

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Doors open at 3pm. The show officially begins at 6pm.
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue

RSVP
chicagoreportshow@unisourcelink.com
or 630-705-6242 by September 25, 2006
Space is limited.

As a corporate sponsor of Marwen, we ask you bring to the door a $10 donation in cash or check payable to Marwen (as your admission). Please do not send checks in advance.

Fox River Paper
sponsors a film and panel discussion moderated by Rick Valicenti of Thirst--"Professional/Personal/Passion."

Mohawk Show 7
Mohawk Fine Papers celebrates the designers who go beyond the expected and make visuals extraordinary.

Sappi Printer of the Year Show
recognizes print excellence and innovation for work produced on Sappi papers.

The Chicago Fifty Annual Report Show
Annual reports representing fifty of Chicago's finest corporations and institutions.

Marwen Exhibit
Marwen provides high-quality visual arts, education, college planning and career development programs--all free of charge--to Chicago's under served youth, grades 6 thru 12.

The World's Greatest Paper Mills will be on display to educate and inform:
Abitibi Consolidated
Crane
CTI Paper USA
Domtar
Finch, Pruyn
Fox River Paper/Gilbert Paper
French Papers
MACtac
MeadWestvaco
Mohawk Fine Papers
National Envelope
Neenah Paper
NewPage
OJI Paper
ReichPaper
Sappi Fine Paper
Smart Papers
Stora Enso
WausauPaper
Weyerhaeuser
Yupo

7/7-7/9: G-Fest XIII

North American Godzilla fans will be gathering July 7-9, 2006 at the Crowne Plaza O'Hare International in Rosemont, IL for G-FEST XIII. The special guest for G-FEST XIII is Kazuki Omori, the director of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) and three other Godzilla films. Other featured guests include actor Robert Scott Field of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991), Yoshikazu Ishii, first assistant special effects director of Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) and Bruce Fuller, monster suit-maker of Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero.

G-FEST XIII will be screening Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and will present the Midwest premiere of Gamera: The Little Braves (2006) (both at the Pickwick Theater in nearby Park Ridge, Illinois) and Negadon, the Monster from Mars (at the Crowne Plaza).

G-FEST XII will also have a giant dealers room, a super Godzilla display, model instruction, video room, Destroy All Monsters Tournament, Godzilla: Save The Earth Tournament, costume parade & contest, art contest, video contest and more.

Weekend admission tickets are $29.00 for adults, $10 for youth (12 and under). Daily admission (at the door) is $20.00 for adults, $5.00 for youths. Children 5 and under are admitted FREE.

For more information, log onto www.g-fan.com.

Chicago, IL
The ClearFocus Studio 2006 tour is a traveling educational event that provides an exciting and informative forum for professional photographers. Learn about the latest digital technology from various digital imaging hardware and software vendors in a unique environment by attending lectures and a guided studio workflow tour. Also enjoy lunch and an open house with all the providers.

Chicago : May 25th 2006
click here to go to the event registration page and receive a Free Event Pass ($149.00 value)

Schedule:
09:00am: Registration
09:15am: Welcome
09:30am: Lecture: Apple Computer "Aperture Overview"
10:30am: Break
10:45am: Lecture: Adobe Systems "DNG Overview"
11:30am: Break
11:45am: Lecture: Hasselblad "Medium Format Capture"
12:30am: Lunch with the Manufacturers
01:00pm-5:00pm- Open Studio

Location:
To be determined check back soon

ANOTHER CHICAGO IS POSSIBLE!
ANOTHER WORLD IS TOO!

The 3rd annual CHICAGO SOCIAL FORUM (CSF)
is being held on MAY 6, 2006 at Roosevelt University.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 31st!!
http://www.chicagosocialforum.org

Participating organizations and individuals may
sponsor or conduct:
• Workshops
• Presentations
• Solidarity meetings
• Cultural or artistic performances and exhibitions

For every progressive, activist, socially and environmentally conscious,
radical, dreaming-
and-acting for a better world organization, artist, individual or collective in
Chicagoland...

If you want to network, educate, be educated, help build a stronger, more united
force of
movements within our city, don't let this pass you by.

Have questions?
Email ChicagoSocialForum @ yahoo.com
or call Stephanie at call 312-641-5151

Society for Photographic Education
43nd National Conference – March 2006
A New Pluralism: Photography's Future
March 23-26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers

For fifty years we have been living in a world inundated and defined by photographic imagery while photography has been taught in relative isolation in academia. SPE members recognize the necessity to address the cultural context of our medium, moving beyond academic boundaries. A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future seeks to explore the current cultural and conceptual evolution of the photographic image and the influence new technologies are having on our understanding of what it means to make photographs both in and out of our departments. How is photographic practice re-defined as a result of the inclusion of digital technologies? Can we eliminate barriers between the various arts and humanities departments in our schools, allowing for a cross pollination of crafts and philosophies? As educators and artists we seek to understand photography’s future in an age of multi-disciplinary practice.

Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition of 1893 claimed to have “invented illusion.” It was a wild mix of the scientific and the surreal, fact and fiction. Conceived as a celebration of America’s progress in industry and technology, the exposition became a place of magic and fantasy – a virtual New World after the great fire.

Chicago and its history of recovery and transformation, will be the backdrop for the 2006 Society for Photographic Education national conference. Chicago’s legacy is enhanced by great architecture, food, music, theater, world-class museums and the newly completed Millennium Park with its Frank Gehry band shell. Please join us!

Carlos Diaz
Richard Gray
2006 Conference Co-Chairs

http://www.spenational.org/