Share 'BlogHer/Chicago In Real Life in 2009'

So I definitely want to try and attend BlogHer next summer in Chicago. Chicago is a city DH and I had wanted to visit anyway, so we're talking about making it a family trip, but we'll have to see, it's a long drive (26 hours approx) OR fairly expensive plane tickets, and then it would probably just be me going. DH and I have long-standing plans to take a big "alone" trip next fall to New York, ...