Thanks for the tip. I managed to navigate my way through the "L" to get to the Borders which oddly was not the huge one downtown. He read one of his new short stories, Moving Violations" after making sure no small children were in the audience. He was a good reader and I was actually sad that this was more a signing than a reading - I would have loved to hear him read more.
The Borders was packed with mostly college aged girls, people in the program, and older gay men with a few odd ball demographics, like my own thrown into the mix.
It certainly was a fun unique way to spend an evening in Chicago.