If you have time an excellent event is the every Wed at 10am-12 full timers meeting. 

In an average year I get less than 5 inquiries from them, and it's usually someone coming here for a wedding or graduation that just wants to stay a weekend. 

Downtown is a lot like a mini Denver with breweries and small restaurants and event venues everywhere. 

My understanding (I'm not a CPA) is that if you plan business related tasks on Monday and Tuesday and plan on spending Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at the beach, you can't claim the hotel expenses for Wed-Fri.

There is a DuPage Co group that meets up every 3rd Wed of the month in Downers Grove at Emmett's Ale House starting at 6:30.https://www.meetup.com/DuPage-County-Real-Estate-I...They also have a Facebook grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/898079283660130/I'm not sure if there's any closer to where you're talking about, though.

I have a baby on the way(1st one) a wedding in July I have to pay 6k on and have about 30k in debt.

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I would do a little research as a large number of them are just venues for guru's and pitchmen to sell their class, software, or mentor-ship, all of which is probably unnecessary for you to get.

I started to realize that if I were going to pay for a wedding for my daughter or pay for my kids to go to college, something had to change.

Newly wed couples do that.