Guys, at 10:00 pm Thursday night, when I had stated at the beginning of the thread would be the ending of the poll, Starved Rock had 7 votes. Beach Park had 6 votes, but there were 2 people - Jose and Dexter - who were unable to vote in the poll and asked me to cast their vote for Beach Park. The intent of the 10pm cutoff Thursday night was so that people had (1) over a full day to decide; and (2) the ability to go into work on Friday and request off for Saturday the 13th and satisfy the 2 weeks' advanced notice most employers require.
DO THE MATH. Starved Rock lost by one.
I posted links in the 3 threads we had going about a meet on May 13th AND posted the same link in the comments file of all my MySpace friends who are also Illinois members on this board. There are probably some who didn't vote.
Starved Rock didn't win. I would have enjoyed going. Andrea was excited to go to it as well. But it didn't. Sometimes life doesn't go your way. Here's an idea for next time. Let's set a date in the summer. NOW. Let's set the location. NOW. Otherwise, we'll do all this junk again.