KeyCon 2026 placeholder lists June 13 at Irish American Heritage Center

KBD.news posted a placeholder listing on Feb. 14 announcing KeyCon 2026 will take place on Saturday, June 13, 2026 at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, with the entry listing the Erin Room and 3rd floor at 4626 N Knox Ave UNIT 301, Chicago, IL 60630. The listing includes a single time stamp - "2026 June 13, 12:00 (Saturday)" - and names Chicago Mechanical Keyboards as the organizer.

The listing opens with the verbatim line, "We're pleased to announce that KeyCon 2026 will be held on Sat, June 13, 2026 at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago." The event's data sheet in the KBD.news entry repeats the date and location and marks the event as "Fee: paid event but the fee is unknown," leaving ticket pricing and sales details unlisted in the excerpt.

Logistics notes on the listing include a public-transit suggestion and onsite parking guidance. The Info field reads, "We encourage you to take public transit but there will be an onsite first come, first served parking lots with room for about 300 cars. For public transit, you can take the CTA Blue [...]" That transit instruction is truncated in the provided excerpt and the listing provides no registration link or URL in the visible "Web:" field.

The listing's single time string - "12:00" - does not specify AM or PM, and the KBD.news excerpt supplies no schedule, program, speakers, vendors, or exhibitor list. The posted entry also appears twice in the supplied source material; two identical copies of the KBD.news listing are present in the Additional Source Reports, reinforcing that the placeholder entry was the primary public notice captured on Feb. 14, 2026.

Several concrete items remain to be confirmed before planning travel or coverage. Verify with Chicago Mechanical Keyboards whether the June 13 date is final and whether the listed "12:00" denotes noon; ask where and when tickets will be sold and what the paid-event fee will be. Confirm with the Irish American Heritage Center whether the Erin Room and the 3rd floor are both reserved for KeyCon and whether the venue can confirm the "about 300 cars" parking figure. Obtain the full CTA Blue transit directions omitted from the excerpt and ask the organizer for a public registration URL, program schedule, and a point of contact for press.

KBD.news' placeholder functions as an early save-the-date; the posting date on the entry is Feb. 14, 2026, and the listing currently supplies the event name, venue address, organizer, and basic parking guidance while leaving ticketing, schedule, and participant details to be announced.