CWB show a hit for custom woodworkers.Custom woodworkers from throughout the Midwest Midwest or Middle West, region of the United States centered on the western Great Lakes and the upper-middle Mississippi valley. It is a somewhat imprecise term that has been applied to the northern section of the land between the Appalachians and the nation descended on suburban Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. March 25-26 to attend seminars and view machinery and supplies geared exclusively for the custom woodworker. More than 1,300 people participated in the two-day event held at the Arlington Park Arlington Park is a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago region has been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks (six) than any other major Hilton Hil·ton , Conrad Nicholson 1887-1979. American hotel-chain organizer who acquired hotels in many American cities and in 1946 founded the Hilton Hotel Corporation. , Arlington Heights Arlington Heights, village (1990 pop. 75,460), Cook county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures include machinery, drugs and medical equipment, and metal fabrication. Arlington Park racetrack is there. , III. In addition, more than 90 companies exhibited a complete range of custom woodworking machinery, supplies and materials during the two-day show. "The show was a great success," said Harry Urban, publisher of Custom Woodworking Business, sponsor of the show. "We drew attendees from around the country, and naturally we had a good draw from the Midwest and Chicago area. The Midwest is a true powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. in terms of custom woodworkers." In addition to the exhibits, 13 three-hour seminars attracted a total attendance of 579. "The seminars balanced business topics and technical programs," said conference director Rich Christianson. "The business programs were particularly well received. This underscores our belief that custom woodworkers are hungry for knowledge that will help make them better businessmen." Robert Habe of RH Designs and Walter Gold of CR Furniture, said they attended some of the seminars including one on business and that they had come away with a number of good ideas. "Who knows, maybe next year you'll be seeing us in the Fortune 500," Habe joked. Response to the seminars, as gaged by evaluation forms, was extremely positive, Christianson said. These forms will be used in planning next year's show. Because of the success of this year's show, "next year, we will be forced to move to a larger venue with more space and facilities for machinery setup See BIOS setup and install program. and exhibits in general," said Urban. Exact dates and location were not known at press time, but Urban said next year's show will be held around the same time in the Chicago area. |
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