Oh man, I know *exactly* where that hotel is! The WCRA Mid-Winter Hamfest that I go to every year used to be located at the DuPage Expo Center, which is located right next door to the Pheasant Run Resort. I used to park in their parking lot for that event. It is right by the DuPage Airport. It has been a few years since the hamfest has been located there, so my memory of the hotel is a bit fuzzy, but if my memory serves me correctly the Pheasant Run Resort is not a very big facility. Based on that I would wager that this con is probably going to be a really small one in size. Naturally, with this hotel only being located only about 45-minutes or so away from me I would absolutely love to go, but it is happening around the same time as the Vintage Computer Fair Midwest always does, and if both of those events end up happening on the very same weekend I will probably end up having to choose the Vintage Computer Fair Midwest instead just because I have been going there for many years now and I have so many friends from around the country that I only see while I'm there. The date for this year's Vintage Computer Fair Midwest hasn't been announced yet, so I'll have to wait and see if the two events end up conflicting.
So far, the information about this new Midwestria convention at its official website is pretty sparse. I was able to gleam from it that it is three-days long, but there is no info what-so-ever about special guests, programming, if there is going to be any kind of art show/artist's alley/dealer room, or other such vital info. I'm hoping that when more information about the con ends up getting added it will start to sound more and more interesting, because there is really not a lot of info for me to go on right now.