About this Event
Friday
Board meeting, 12pm, East Peoria City Hall (Virtual option will be available)
INBA event check-in, 4-6 pm
Welcome social, 6:30 pm - More information to come!
- Gather with your fellow INBA colleagues while drinking a beer (or soda) to kick off a weekend of learning, networking and celebrating.
Saturday
INBA event check-in, 8 - 9 AM
Opening remarks, 9 AM
9:30 to 10 AM – Nature Returns to Emiquon documentary
10 AM - Q&A with documentary producer and photographer
10:30 AM - Attendees pick up boxed lunches and head to the bus to depart for Emiquon Preserve (lunch eaten on bus)
11:45 AM - Arrive at Emiquon Preserve, and listen to short preventations from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Dickson Mounds Museum officials and the Nature Conservancy, Illinois River Biological Station, Forbes Biological Station and Therkildsen Field Station
12:30 PM - Bus takes reporters out in the "field" to conduct interviews and get b-roll/photos
1:45 PM - Bus leaves Emiquon
3 PM - INBA business meeting/elections at hotel
4:15 PM - IPR meeting
6 PM – Cocktail hour
6:30 PM– Dinner
7 PM – Presentation of Illinoisan of the Year
7:15 PM – Keynote address
8 PM – Crystal Mic Awards presentation
Sunday
9:30 am – Breakfast
10am – How to report on overdoses
11:30 AM – Closing resolution
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Holiday Inn & Suites East Peoria, an IHG Hotel, 101 Holiday Street, East Peoria, United States
USD 40.00 to USD 177.91
