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Lodging & Travel
The 2008 Co-op America Green Business Conference will be held at the Chicago's Navy Pier Ballroom, May 14-15.
Several concurrent events are scheduled in Chicago during the week of the Conference: make your reservations today!
Area hotels include:
The Kimpton EarthCare Initiative has adopted standard products and practices to benefit Planet Earth. These include using eco-friendly cleaning supplies, limiting towel and linen reuse, paper and plastics recycling, energy-efficient lighting improvements, low-flow water conservation techniques, and the use of soy-based inks and recycled paper in our collateral. Please go to www.kimptonhotels.com to book the best available rate at any of Kimpton's Chicago hotels while availability lasts.
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These hotels have negotiated special rates for the 2008 Chicago Green Festival.
Best Western Hawthorne Terrace
3434 North Broadway
Chicago, IL 60657
Rates: $204.00 Standard Single (single occupancy only), $244.00 Deluxe Double/Double-Single + 15.4% tax (reserve by April 11)
Reservations: 773-244-3434 (ask for the Green Festival Room block)
Located in the heart of Chicago, Best Western Hawthorne Terrace offers guests stylishly appointed accommodations in Lakeview, one of Chicago's most lively neighborhoods. The hotel is only steps away from world-famous Wrigley Field. Amenities including free wireless high-speed Internet access, in-room refrigerators and microwave ovens, complimentary continental breakfast and newspaper delivered to your door.
Hilton Suites Chicago/Magnificent Mile
198 East Delaware Place
Chicago, IL 80611
Rates: $269.00 Single room $289.00 Double room (reserve by April 13th)
Reservations: ph 312-664- 1100 / fax 312-664-9881
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Hilton Suites Chicago Magnificent Mile is located in the heart of Chicago's Gold Coast and features 345 Luxurious two-room suites. Enjoy our 30th floor fitness center featuring an indoor pool, whirlpool, sauna with breathtaking views of the Lakefront. Parking is $49 + tax per night rate.
Omni Chicago Hotel
676 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Rate: $349 King Suites, $369 Double Suite + 15.4% tax (reserve by April 3)
Reservations: 800-843-6664
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The Omni Chicago Hotel is the only all-suite luxury hotel on Michigan Avenue with a plasma-screen television in every room! Located in the heart of the "Magnificent Mile," the Omni Chicago Hotel is one of the best-loved hotels in downtown Chicago. Every space exudes the luxury and sophistication you expect from a four-diamond hotel. All of our guests receive complimentary turndown service and complimentary use of our newly renovated fitness center. Our 676 restaurant is a great place to dine while overlooking Michigan Ave. We are located about 1 mile from Navy Pier and are within walking distance to local museums, parks and the many attractions Chicago has to offer.
Ramada Lake Shore
4900 S Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60615
Rates: $129.00/night for 3 or more nights; $159.00 for Friday and Saturday nights only, plus tax of 15.4% (reserve by April 13)
Reservations: 773-288-5800 (mention Green Festival)
The Ramada is located just 12 minutes south of Navy Pier at 47th and Lake Shore Drive. The Metra Train and CTA bus, two options that will get you downtown quickly and affordably, are two blocks away. The Ramada is a full-service hotel with a restaurant, and many of our rooms look out over Lake Michigan. We’re also just blocks away from an assortment of neighborhood shops and restaurants. Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is just a half-mile south of us, and parks, the lakefront and museums are right outside our door.
Holiday Inn Chicago North Shore
5300 W. Touhy Avenue
Skokie, IL 60077
Rates: $169.00 + 9.5% tax (reserve by April 17th)
Reservations: 866-750-3369
The Holiday Inn Chicago North Shore Hotel & Conference Center (North Shore area) is a conference hotel and the perfect location for business, meetings, shopping and sightseeing the Chicago area. The Holiday Inn Chicago North Shore Hotel is ideally located just 12 miles from downtown Chicago, 10 miles from O'Hare International Airport, and many other exciting attractions such as Wrigley Field, Navy Pier, Northwestern University, Chicago Botanical Gardens, Ravinia Music Festival, and Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center.
Best Western University Plaza
1501 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Rates: $129 13.5% tax rate (reserve by April 13th)
Reservations: 847-491-6400
Please call hotel and ask for the Green Festival rate. Hotel is located in downtown Evanston. Easy to get to Chicago by driving our public trains.
Baymont Inn and Suites
1625 Milwaukee Avenue
Glenview, IL
Rates: $80.00 + 10.65% tax (reserve by April 11th)
Reservations: 800-BAYMONT or 847-635-8300.
www.baymontchicago.com
Minutes away from the famous Restaurant Row, offering cuisine from Benihana of Tokyo to Bob Chinns Crabhouse, the Baymont Inn and Suites in the prestigious North Shore of Chicago. You'll find our very comfortable rooms equipped with coffee makers, hair dryers, iron and ironing boards, free wireless high-speed Internet (also throughout the hotel), cable, and pay-per-view movies and Nintendo. We offer a complimentary extended continental breakfast buffet, USA Today, and 24-hour coffee service in the lobby. There is a fitness room and laundry facilities on property.
Other Chicagoland hotels
Baymont $80.00 + tax
Holiday Inn Skokie $139.00 + tax
BestWestern University Evansville $129.00 + tax
for other lodging options, check Hotels.com
Congress Plaza Hotel
Downtown
Chicago location
520 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL. 60605
Rates: $204.00 + tax (reserve by April 21st)
Reservations: 312-427-3800 x 5025 OR 1-800-635-1666
When booking, ask for Green Festival rates
(Please note the Congress Hotel has been on strike the past 4 years)
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2008 Speakers
Bianca Alexander
Exec. Prod./Host, Conscious Living TV
Raphael Bemporad
Principal/Co-founder, BBMG
Michael Berkshire
Green Projects Administrator
Department of Planning and Development
Phil Baugh
Baum Realty Group/Green Exchange
Joyce Coffee
LEED AP
Director of Policy and Research
Chicago’s Department of Environment
Hon. Richard M. Daley
Mayor, City of Chicago (invited)
Connie Evans
President/CEO, CSolutions Consulting
Erin Ford
Farmer Renewables & Energy Program Manager, Organic Valley
Jason Graham-Nye
Cofounder/CEO, gDiapers
Jeffrey P. Harvey
President/CEO, Burgerville, Inc.
Xavier Hegelsen
Cofounder/COO, BetterWorld Books
Sadhu A. Johnston
Chief Environmental Officer,
City of Chicago
David Kirkpatrick
Managing Director/Co-founder, SJF Ventures
Rob Lederer
Founder, Management Resources
Mickey Lee
Project Manager, The Carbon Concierge
David Lubensky
President, Bagatto, Inc.
Katie McClain
Chicago City Director
Clinton Climate Initiative
Suzanne Malec-McKenna
Commissioner of the Environment,
City of Chicago
Carol Moseley Braun
Founder/CEO, Ambassador Organics
Brenda M. Palms Barber
Founder/COO, Sweet Beginnings
Roger Post
Vice President & General Manager
Christy Webber Landscaping
Sharon Rowe
Founder, EcoBags
Ella Silverman
Trust Provider Coordinator, Project Good/eBay
Sara Snow
TV Host, Discovery Health Channel
Chris Van Dyke
President/CEO, NAU
Bryan Welch
Publisher/Editorial Director,
Ogden Publications, Inc.
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