Housing
For the convenience of participants, particularly our international colleagues, the conference is schedule for the days preceding AERA. Please use the AERA website to reserve your housing in association with your AERA registration and housing plans.
If you are not planning to attend AERA, you will have to make your own room reservations. The AERA discount rates cannot be used without an AERA registration. Hotel rooms in downtown Chicago are very reasonable if you use an online reservation service like priceline.com or orbitz.com.
Trying to decide where to book your reservations? It is about a 15 minute walk south from AERA conference hotels--the Hyatt and the Marriott--to the NLU campus. AERA registration is at the Sheraton which is a bit further. The Allerton and Seneca are much further north of the campus. If you chose the Allerton or Seneca for AERA then you might want something closer for the DSE conference such as the Crown Plaza on Wabash or the Palmer House, although the Palmer House may still have some accessibility issues. The reception on Saturday is not at the campus but rather on Ontario north of the Hyatt and Sheraton and right off the Miracle Mile. The Fairfield, Swisshotel, and Mariott are rather close by, as well and leave you centrally located for DSE and AERA.
For more information about these locations use Choose Chicago (http://www.choosechicago.com/), an interactive website that will display locations. Go to http://www.choosechicago.com/map_downtown.html and you will find the Art Institute of Chicago about middle of the page. NLU’s campus is directly across the street, Michigan Avenue, from the Art Institute. Going north from there, near Water Tower Place, you’ll find Ontario St. The Saturday evening dinner will be held on Ontario, just east of Michigan and right in the Miracle Mile neighborhood.