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Spring Knowledge Share
Date: May 9
Time: 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. CST
Location: Delta Hotels by Marriott, Glenview, Illinois
Golf Classic
Date: May 20
Time: 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. CST
Location: The Grove Country Club, Long Grove, Illinois
Annual Awards Recognition Celebration 2019
Date: June 6
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. CST
Location: Venue West, Chicago
Trivia Night
Date: Aug. 6
Time: 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. CST*
Location: Navy Pier, Chicago
 
*Time is subject to change.
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With a 300,000 square-foot convention center, 17,000 hotel rooms, and 10 miles of lakefront (not to mention the home base of Harley-Davidson, sausage races, a flying art museum, mountainous bloody marys, and everything from 5-star dining to scrumptious cheese curds), Milwaukee should be on your shortlist for your next meeting. Oh, and beer. We have beer too.
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