Tim Courtney has emailed me and invited myself and all of you to attend the very first Silicon Prairie Social, to be held on Thursday, September 20 at Mullen’s Bar and Grill in Lisle, IL. This is being billed as a suburban tech networking event, as Lisle is about 30 minutes west of Chicago. That is, 30 minutes without the occasional traffic tie-ups on the Chicagoland roads.

And to answer your next question, yes, there will be free drinks. They have an impressive list of sponsors on their Web site already. I am glad to hear about and share information on such events. At events in Chicago proper, many people come in from the ‘burbs to attend, and I hope some folks from the city venture west. You may want to head out earlier and do some shopping, as the tax is less outside of the city!

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Thanks for the post, Mike. You bring up a good point on shopping - I’ll post some pointers to the blog in the weeks before the event with suggestions for Chicago residents coming out.

My big suggestion: dinner downtown Naperville. It’s just a couple miles from the Naperville Rd exit on I-88, plenty of nice restaurants and a great suburban downtown ambiance.

Comment by Tim Courtney
on 08/13/07 at 11:13 AM
 

We’ll be there! See you then, Mike.

Comment by Joe Johnson
on 08/14/07 at 11:46 PM
 

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