Daily updates and photos all week from the national planning conference in Chicago.
The conference entered the home stretch Wednesday and finished in a final burst of sessions on another picture-perfect Chicago spring day. Looks of grief were equal parts realization that soon the attendees would no longer be in the company of thousands of their peers and realization that real work loomed once again on the horizon. From gaining new acquaintances and job skills, to impromptu discussions of van-pooling in the hotel bar, this 2002 national planning conference went off without a hitch, and seemed to be receiving high marks from all...
Thanks to Chris Steins
FULL STORY: 2002 APA Conference: Final Day 4

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