Hello Friends!
The 2024 RPM Naperville/Chicagoland Conference is gearing up! The event kicks off on Thursday, October 10 with some evening presentations before moving into notch eight for Friday and Saturday. October 11 and 12. We return to the beautiful Northern Illinois University Conference Center on the NIU campus in suburban Naperville, Illinois (1120 E. Diehl Road, Suite 150, Naperville, IL 60563).
A PDF of the 2024 RPM Naperville/Chicagoland booklet is available to download.
Registration
Our online advance registration options have closed, October registrations for the event can only be handled at the door. Registration for the full event is $75.00. Friday or Saturday only Registration is $40.00.
Registration check-in will open at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, October 10 at the NIU center for the early arrivals. The vendor room will open Friday morning. Doors open at 8:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday. A few presentations will run on Thursday evening until 10:00 p.m. Events run from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Friday and 9:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Clinics
Our 2024 RPM has thirty-five presentations on the schedule. Current details are posted on the Presenters page. Nearly all will be repeated. Friday and Saturday there will be up to five clinic tracks for meeting, learning and discussion. A tentative clinic schedule is now available to download as a PDF. This is a tentative schedule and subject to change at any time.
Model Display
Models are our inspiration! Bring your models for display and discussion. All scales, eras, gauges and sizes are welcome. There are no contests. Bring your best and latest work to explain, teach and inspire your fellow modelers. We will have fifty tables of space in one big room! Of course, there is no additional fee for displaying models.
Layouts
A couple layouts will be on-site for RPM Naperville/Chicagoland. The Mod-U-Trak group’s large, highly-prototypical HO and N scale layouts will be operating. We hope to post details for a couple of home layout tours soon.
Vendors
Several vendors are attending. We have commitments from quite a few dealers, manufacturers and historical societies. Current details are posted on the Vendors page. We are expecting full the vendor rooms. A couple new models are scheduled for release at the event.
Hotels
Several hotel options are within walking distance nearby. The Naperville Embassy Suites, Naperville Fairfield Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard Chicago Naperville, and Holiday Inn Express Naperville are located across Diehl Road from the NIU center. Here’s a Google Maps link to the area.
https://goo.gl/maps/HXtYwFc6KCsqTqxR6
We’re looking forward to seeing you soon in Naperville!
Signed,
RPM Naperville/Chicagoland Team
Frank Hodina
Mike Skibbe
Steve Hile
Jerry Hamsmith
Tom Madden
Eric Hansmann
Is there an admission price for only vendor and display rooms?
David, the registration costs are outlined on the Registration page.
Two Day Registration $75
Full registration covers the event days, access to the model display room and all seminars. Spouses are half price.
Single Day Registration $40
Covers registration for Friday or Saturday only.
Eric H.
How do the clinics work? Is there a sign-up sheet or is it open seating, if available? Are they already booked full with the early registrations? I’ll be attending just on Saturday. Thanks in advance.
Michael, the clinics all have open seating. There should be plenty of room for you to see a few presentations. – Eric H.
Hello Eric,
I asked Fenton Wells for an electronic copy of his presentation on the Fruit Growers Express reefer fleet. His email response says he forwarded the file to you, and that you would post it “soon”. Could you please either send me a copy of Fenton’s presentation, or post it in an accessible place? I am mainly interested in Fenton’s statistical tables, so if the file lacks photos, that’s okay.
Thanks.
Ralph, Presentation files and more have been posted to the 2024 RPM Program Complete page. – – Eric H.