My Unsolicited Review

Last night we ventured out in this God awful freezing weather to see George Strait at the new Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. While the concert itself was pretty good (I thought George could have played more of his hits) the venue and parking sucked the big one! I think the arena holds about 6000 people and they appear to have parking for only about 12 vehicles. They were parking people over a mile away with shuttle buses to the arena. That's all fine and dandy except that I'm pretty sure they only had about 2 buses. We waited in the 5 degree temperature (not taking into consideration the wind chill factor, which in Chicago is more relevant than the actual temperature) for more than 30 minutes to catch a shuttle to the arena. And when the concert ended it was another long wait for a bus. At least this time the wait was indoors. Had we known this we would have dressed as if we were going to a Bears game, complete with flasks. On top of all this, it seemed that they had no real plan for handling this situation. It was complete chaos. I am truly surprised there was not a riot or the like. And they wonder why Sears is in the dumper! I for one will not ever return to the Sears Centre and if you were smart you wouldn't either.