fanworks | FanWorks Chicago has unpaused! Hotel room booking is now available

Hi, everyone!

Good news: FanWorks is proceeding as scheduled in Chicago.

Registration for August 2022, in Chicago and online, is open again on the con website at https://fanworkscon.com/register/.

It continues to be our policy to be as transparent as possible about con planning, and we don't want anyone to have to speculate about what happened. With that in mind: late last week, we were told that the con hotel had lost our event contract, and we entered the weekend in a state of uncertainty about what that would mean for us going ahead. This has all been resolved, as we hoped it would be – but we were uncertain enough that we didn't want to keep it secret, because it would've been wrong of us to allow people to continue to book travel during a period where we weren't sure about the con's future.

Apologies if anyone worried about the con over the weekend! Everything is fine now, and we're very excited to gear up for our August events.

Room Reservations

With that sorted, we now also have a booking link from the hotel for room reservations. Rooms can be booked between now and July 20th, the deadline for reservations at the con rate.

The con's room block includes king and double rooms at $119/night (for either room type). All rooms at the SpringHill include a living area with a sofa and coffee table, and a kitchenette with a microwave and minifridge.

> Rooms can be booked using this link. <

The earliest available check-in under the room rate is Wednesday, August 10th, and the latest available check-out is Monday, August 15th. When planning your reservation, it may be helpful to keep in mind that con programming runs Thursday evening through Sunday evening. (Thursday is currently expected to be registration only, and you can pick up your registration packet on Friday if needed.)

If you run into issues with the booking link, or if it appears that a night or a room type is sold out, please contact us at fanworkscon@gmail.com so that we can try to sort that out for you! There's a minimum number of hotel rooms within the block that we need to reserve, so please don't book at the regular rate without contacting us first.