>>Bill,
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>>Completely off the pun-ny stuff, enjoy yourself. I'll be up in your neck of the woods (kinda) the first week of July.
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>Thanks George! Will you be able (or do you even want to? ) see the fireworks downtown? I'm lobbying to take the family down this year.

Probably not, Bill. The people we'll be staying with live on a huge farm in Libertyville and sometimes do their own firework displays. Besides, if memory serves, is that the week of "Taste of Chicago"? My wife and I got hung up the traffic at midnight one day at that event. Bumper-to-bumper at midnight? No thanks, did that once, don't want to do it again.:-)