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Rick Collins
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Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2005 3:10 pm |
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...anyone ever check into holding the HSGA at Harrah's Joliet instead of, at the Holiday Inn?
...just seeking .............. information. 
Rick |
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Rick Aiello
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Berryville, VA USA
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Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2005 5:21 pm
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Here's the latest on the Holiday Inn renovations for Joliet. Apparently the hotel is no longer called the Holiday Inn Express. Wally Pfeifer sent me this clipping from a local Joliet newspaper:
JOLIET — The Holiday Inn on Larkin Avenue opened a restaurant Thursday, marking another step in the reconversion of the hotel into a full-service operation.
Next is the opening of the 13,500-square-foot banquet and conference center, which is scheduled for mid-September.
The Joliet hotel originally was a full-service facility with a restaurant when it opened in 1971. But the restaurant was eliminated as the facility was converted to a Holiday Inn Express limited-service hotel in the early 1990s at a time when competition from a new wave of economy hotels was cutting into business.
Current owner John Seo, however, has been remodeling rooms, adding the new restaurant, and creating larger and updated banquet and meeting space as he brings back the full service glow to the local Holiday Inn.
The name has been changed to Holiday Inn Hotel Joliet Banquet and Convention Center.
The restaurant, named 80 North to reflect the hotel's location north of Interstate 80, is a steak house open from 4 to 10 p.m. for dinner. The restaurant also has a breakfast buffet but no lunch.
New Executive Chef Sergio Leon said the menu now is designed to offer local customers a taste of downtown Chicago with entree selections that include swordfish and a number of items in addition to steak. Leon said the restaurant also has a wine list that he hopes to expand if customers show interest in a larger selection.
Menu items range from a bacon cheeseburger at $7.95 to filet mignon at $21.95.
Meanwhile, the first weddings in the new banquet space are scheduled for Sept. 24. The meeting space will open in mid-September to host business conferences, Seo said.
Seo said the banquet and conference facility will be ready for the events scheduled for September.
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 20 Aug 2005 6:51 pm
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| the first weddings in the new banquet space are scheduled for Sept. 24 |
Dang, those things scare me....  Hope they're over with by the time of the convention. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2005 11:35 am
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Thanks all, for the information.
I'll send Mr. Clean by the newly renovated Holiday Inn to check it out, Rick A. Gosh, I'll never live that down.
I don't gamble (I don't even understand most of it); but I do know that the gaming industry sure knows the kind of hospitality that makes most people feel almost at home there (at their hotels).
...hate to cut this short; but, __ gotta' go take a shower. Rick |
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HowardR
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N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 21 Aug 2005 1:02 pm
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just return it when you're finished....
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2005 7:35 am
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I did it, Howard.
Now, make me a promise:
When you see a styrafoam cup on the street in N.Y.C. bend over, pick it up, and place it in the waste receptical.
Mr. Clean |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 23 Aug 2005 8:57 am
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I love it, Gerald.
...hope he remembered to vacuum that box first. |
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