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Actually, consider the following:
Your dates coincide with two major meetings: The Neurosurgeons Congress and the Graph (Graphics) Expo. Also, an even bigger medical meeting, the American College of Surgeons, concludes on the 4th (and there are sometimes private events after the formal show, especially in the medical field as the pharmaceutical companies take advantage of all those doctors in one place at one time)
Medical conventions tend to have fewer cancellations, as there are continuing education/training programs attached to many such meetings.
The Marathon just makes the rooms situation even tighter, but the race is not the main factor.
So if you can't change your dates, one alternative you might look at is staying in an outlying area (like the O'Hare area) and commuting in on the CTA.
Best wishes in your search for accommodations.
Thanks for the info. This will be my first time in Chicago.
I'm going to be in town for a conference early in the week until Friday but the rooms they've booked for us are at the Hilton in Oak Lawn. My plan was to try to get a room in the city for Friday and Sat night but now I'm thinking that it'll probably be easier to just to Orange Line it into the city.
It's funny to see a large number of rooms in a central location in a city the size of Chicago booked to capacity. In the past year year I've stayed in Midtown Manhattan, downtown LA, Paris and DC and I haven't had a problem getting a room. But the one time I come to Chi I can't get the room I want to save my life. Crazy.
