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Pisetsky Arthritis Research Therapy 2011, 13:138 /content/13/6/138 EDITORIAL The 2011 ACR Meeting: what’s new in the Windy City David S Pisetsky* Among the many things I learned at the American bias beyond some boosterism on the part of the city College of Rheumatology (ACR) meeting in Chicago this fathers and mothers to tout the history of a city the year is the answer to the question, ‘Which medical American poet Carl Sandburg called stormy, husky and advance was developed in Chicago?’ h is nugget of brawling, not exactly attributes of most rheumatologists. information was not the product of a lecture or poster Once off the bus at the convention center, the oppor- session. Rather, it was fl ashed on the computer screen in tunity for real knowledge was staggering given the cornu- the shuttle bus that transported me every day from the copia of symposia, lectures and poster presentations. In a Palmer House on Monroe Street to the McCormick Place room that seemed bigger than the stockyards that made convention center. h e convention center is gargantuan Chicago the hog butcher of the world, hundreds of bright and is clearly vying for designation as one of the wonders eyed and bushy-tailed young investigators stood of the modern world. Alas, the territory near the center is expectantly by their posters, eager to tell the story of barren and only a Hyatt Regent hotel sits forlornly at the their travails in the lab or in a data bank. Who knew there site, anxiously awaiting some company from brethren was so much new research? In contrast to the ACR meet- named Sheraton, Hilton or