Guess where I spent my Saturday. Here’s a hint: It’s just north of Billy Goat…
I’ll give you another hint. It’s near water, and I commute here three times a week. What else is an intern supposed to do on a Saturday?
My deadbeat friends were taking too long to get to Navy Pier, so I had to weigh my options. I tried entertaining myself by going to a magic show in the family pavilion, but I got bored when I realized the magician wouldn’t be sawing any kids in half.
So now I’m bumming around the station, desperately looking for coffee cups to fill and there’s no one here. This place gives me the creeps. It’s scary enough when public radio broadcasters are here, but the unknown is just as unsettling. The phone on my camera doesn’t do the haunting newsroom any justice. However, it does capture the terror of the creepy WBEZ stairwell just fine.
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11 2009
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I spent my Saturday just a few steps east of you at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair. Better than the magic show, and way more fun than your creepy stairwell.
The Chicago Toy and Game Fair was the real reason I was at the pier in the first place. I was going with a group of people and they missed their train(a likely story) and had to wait over an hour for the next one. That’s the Metra for you.
I was there early and so I had to hang around the pier for a few hours, waiting for them.
The actual fair was a little disappointing. For the price of admission, it wasn’t bad, but if that’s supposed to be the biggest toy and game fair in the country, then the industry is in trouble.
It depends a lot what you call a toy and game fair. It’s certainly not the largest game convention. That would have to be either GenCon in Indianapolis for tabletop games, or something like PAX in Seattle for video games.
Believe me Dave, if there were a gaming convention of PAX proportions in Chicago, I’d be blogging all about it. This wasn’t that sort of fair though. This was more like a boardgame fair(with a few toys being displayed).
While it was fun, it wasn’t that big. As someone who regularly attends Wizard World/ComicCon Chicago, this was kind of a pitiful industry fair in my book. At big comic book conventions, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro booths alone rival the size of the entire Chicago Toy and Game Fair.