I'm in the midwest and would be down for a Chicago meetup. I also have a qt asian gf up there who might want to attend as well, she has money.
Anyway, if this happens, we should find out some way to profit from this, even if the profit is tiny. Perhaps we can dupe prominent crypto twitter people to show up. We tell them they have to pay 1 BTC for the privilege to speak, but we guarantee them that whatever coin they shill will be bought by all in attendance. In reality, we each spend like 5 cents to buy whatever coin they shill, thus holding up our part of the deal. Then we split the profits between us, it could net like 50 or 100 bucks per user