Forwarding Peter's question on to the list, in the hopes that this helps others: Peter Horst wrote:

What's the Chicago Institute of Design?

IoD is a school located in what's better known as the AFLAC building, one block north of the Chicago river: http://tinyurl.com/mdqb3 (Google map) As I said, it's a nice facility: http://www.chicagolug.org/Image:LUG060415_1381.JPG The school itself (I'm not affiliated with it, aside from knowing several teachers and workers there): http://www.id.iit.edu/ - John Quigley