Me and my girlfriend want to get tickets to see NIN at the Congress Theatre in Chicago on Saturday May 7th and I am looking for anyone familiar with the area that could suggest a good hotel to stay in. We will be driving up from MPLS on Friday and staying the weekend. We're not looking for the cheapest place but something reasonable and close to the Congress Theatre.

Any Chi-Town folks able to help me out? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Also if there is any Prince related things going on that weekend I would love to hear about it.

i'll keep an eye out for you - if it were on my side of town, i'd have a few suggestions, but it's on the other side of the city from me, and i'm not as familiar with what hotels are over there.

when are NIN tix going on sale? i think i might have to try for tix for the saturday show!

Anxiety said:

Pre-sale tix go on sale today at 4:00pm CST. I'm going to try to get tix for the Saturday show as well. Have you ever been to the Congress Theatre? What's it like?

Thanks for keeping an eye out. I appreciate it!

eek! that's like in ten minutes! i'm gonna try to get tix, even though i'm at work and i'm sure i'll get called away on something right when i could be going into battle for good tix.

...and now i realize that PRE-SALES go on sale today, and that even though i've been on the NIN mailing list for quite some time now, i didn't get any kind of notification or link to a presale page. shit. oh wellz - i already saw 'em twice, once with bowie. i'll deal.

Anxiety said:

The tickets are all General Admission anyways so you won't have to worry about getting good seats.

way2funky said:

a general admission NIN show???

ehhh...never mind. gramps is getting a little old for that kinda mess. the first NIN show i went to was reserved seating, and there was a riot that broke out when the doors opened. eff that noise, even though i'm sure it'll be very cool, very inspired noise.