Venue & Hospitality
Welcome to the Official Attendee Housing Site for the “International Conference on Protein Engineering†which will be held in the beautiful and exciting city of Chicago, USA. The conference will take place in the following dates and location.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago
North Shore Conference Center 9599 Skokie Boulevard,
Skokie, Illinois, 60077-1314, USA
Tel: 1-847-679-7000
Fax: 1-847-679-0904
Conference Dates: October 26-28, 2015
Hotel Services & Amenities
- Audio/Visual Equipment Rental.
- Business Center.
- Business Phone Service.
- Complimentary Printing Service.
- Express Mail.
- Fax.
- Meeting Rooms.
- Office Rental.
- Photo Copying Service.
- Secretarial Service.
- Telex.
- Typewriter.
- Video Conference.
- Video Messaging.
- Video Phone.
- ATM.
- Baggage Storage.
Transportation
Driving Directions to Chicago-O′Hare International Airport:
Directions: Follow signs to south-east and take the slip road onto I-190 E. Then, take exit 1C for I-294 N/Tollway towards Milwaukee. Merge onto I-294 N and take exit onto US-14 E/E Dempster Street. Continue to follow E Dempster Street. Turn left onto Gross Point Road and then slight left onto Skokie Boulevard.
- Distance from Hotel: 18 mi.
- Drive Time: 30 min.
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Type |
Typical Minimum Charge |
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Taxi |
29.95 USD |
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Courtesy Bus |
Complimentary Shuttle |
Chicago Midway International Airport:
- Directions: Follow south on S Cicero Avenue and make a U-turn at W 59th Street. Turn right onto the Interstate 55 N/
Stevenson Expy slip road to Chicago and merge onto I-55 N/Stevenson Expressway . Take exit 292A for I-90 W/I-94 W towards W Ryan Expressway/ erge onto I-90 W/Wisconsin and m Interstate 94 W. Keep right to continue on Interstate 94 W, follow signs for Milwaukee/Edens Expressway. Take exit 37B to merge onto IL-58 E/Dempster Street. Turn left onto Gross Point Road and Slight left onto Skokie Boulevard.
- Distance from Hotel: 15 mi.
- Drive Time: 30 min.
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Type |
Typical Minimum Charge |
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Taxi |
49.95 USD |
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Courtesy Bus |
Complimentary Shuttle |
Route Map
About City
Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the American Midwest. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called Chicagoland, is home to 9.5 million people and is the third-largest in the United States.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and experienced rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International Airport being the second-busiest airport in the world; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways, and railroad freight entering its region. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index. As of 2012, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States, after the New York City and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, at a sum of US$571 billion.