Build a tight community of moms to share advice, tips and most importantly laughter. Support and connect with other like minded moms by participating in: * Innovative and creative playgroups - fun for mom, fun for baby! Enjoy a relaxed and positive environment with other moms while playfully interacting with your babies (once per week). * Entertaining moms night outs - this is your time. It's easy to put yourself on the back burner during the first few years of motherhood. We feel focusing on yo …

Who are we? Bibs to Backpacks consists of a diverse group of moms, who wish to enjoy activities with their kids while creating lasting friendships for themselves! We are easy going moms looking to have fun, learn from each other, and respect differing parenting styles. The majority of our most active members stay at home with children preschool age or younger, but we have working moms and moms of school age children as well. It doesn’t matter where you live, but the majority of our meetups take …

Mom & Me of Homer Glen is a group of over 30 stay-at-home moms and their kiddies who live in the Homer Glen, Lockport, Lemont and Orland Park areas. We fill our calendar every month with fun activities for the kids and great get-togethers for the moms! Every month our club has moms night out, breakfast club, book club, playgroups for every age, park days, zoo days, splash pad days...there's just too much to list!! In addition to all the fun, we do lots of fundraising for non-profit charities and …

The concept of the group is simple. This is a venue to meet and train with other martial artists. Spar, drill, talk, share ideas, whatever. It is recommended that interested members have some training before attempting to come to a sparring session, simply so that you have the minimum of knowledge to defend yourself. Assume that sessions are not instructor led, unless otherwise specified.

This group is designed for Connected Investors in and around the Southwest Suburbs.  Enjoy a real estate investor networking group focused on connecting you with the local people & resources you need to take your life to the next level.  This Meetup group is focused around doing deals.  No educational products are being sold, but we may give you a few for free. Looking for an investment property to purchase? Join our group.  Want to connect with local real estate millionaires? Make it to your me …

I have come to realize that I have been put on this Earth to help others...  Do you feel the same way? If so, this is the Group for you!! My goal is to schedule at least one (1) fundraiser event or volunteer opportunity per month. I am looking for Members who have the capacity (heart-wise or time-wise) to actively participate in this endeavor. The idea is to help others -- not to make money for yourself or a business you own or are promoting. THE most important thing about this Group is that y …

We are a group of healthy individuals that want to learn more about good wholesome food. Come to one of our raw food or vegan potluck. Plus we have Raw food classes where you can learn to make healthy raw food at a reasonable price. There are also other events where you can expand your knowledge of healthy eating. And of course meet like minded people. The time you spend on yourself will always be WORTH it! Let's get together and exchange ideas, experiences and recipes! I look forward to meeting …

Chic Mesdames, sophisticated ladies who's motto is " Keep your Heels, Head & Standards High"! Now, listen up ladies we are not just your average ladies, we understand how important it is for you to have time just to let go and have fun or as we say it, "Carpe Diem" seizing the day but when we do it ladies we do it with a little class and a little sassiness! Our goal is to build a group of ladies who understand the value of being a philanthropist, who can encourage and uplift one another (be that …

This is a different kind of singles group oriented toward non-religious people of all ages, backgrounds, sexual orientation, and gender. Whether you call yourself an atheist, agnostic, bright, disbeliever, freethinker, humanist, nonbeliever, pastafarian, rationalist, secular humanist, skeptic, "spiritual but not religious," or simply were not raised in with an organized religion and have no interest in one, you are welcome to this group! This group is open to singles from all around the Chicago …

I consider myself a B.O.S.S. and would love to connect with more like minded women who are genuinely interested in growing themselves, professionally, socially, and personally. If you consider yourself as Bold, Optimistic, Savvy and is a open to being a sister to another person, then this group is just for you!

Guess what! You are not the only person who finds it a bit challenging to make new friends at a nightclub. You are also not the only person who is concerned with having money to pay for important things (such as shelter and the occasional dentist appointment, maybe) but unwilling to surrender to a life of Stouffer's frozen dinners! Welcome to Cheap Eats, Good Reads. Here are the goals of this group: 1) Meet friends. 2) Eat good food that is also cheap. 3) Talk about interesting things. Every mon …

Today, more and more families are declaring their independence and taking personal responsibility for their family’s own safety and security during times of emergency. These events may be natural or man-made, but both important. Together, our chapters of Responsible Citizens work together forming stronger and more educated, self-reliant individuals and families. Through group activities, discussions and seminars, some of the topics we will talk about are: ☺ Food Storage ☺ Survival Packs ☺ Water …

LIVE CHAT too! Have you lived here for a while but never had the chance to get out and see the things and places in Chicago that visitors from other cities have seen? New in town and want an excuse to check some "must-see" things off the list? Just looking for something fun to do but didn't really want to do it all by yourself? Be a tourist in our own city! I had always spent the time to check out other city's offerings when I traveled on business or for pleasure, and about 10 years ago, thought …

This group is designed for Connected Investors in and around the Chicago, IL area.  Enjoy a real estate investor networking group focused on connecting you with the local people & resources you need to take your life to the next level.  This Meetup group is focused around doing deals.  No educational products are being sold, but we may give you a few for free. Looking for an investment property to purchase? Join our group.  Want to connect with local real estate millionaires? Make it to your mee …

This groups is for you if: you don't like exercising, but know you need to you know exercise contributes to a healthy lifestyle, if you sometimes need to bring your kids to workout with you if walking is about all you're willing to do exercise has to be fun or you'll quit you have to jedi mind trick yourself into working out are interested in trying different activities aren't afraid to work up a sweat you want to meet new people that aren't health nuts and exercise junkies, but still want to w …

This group is for those who has an entrepreneurial spirit who are highly motivated and energetic, true believers who stand on what the Word of God has to say. Being and/or going into business I know the difficulties that comes along with the bumps on the road, therefore it is good to surround yourself around positive energies that can uplift you and intercede for the success of the path you are on. So I am banking on the Word of God. His word cannot fail and and as He says, "For where 2 or 3 com …

Chicago needs a hardware meetup, so we are making it happen! Join us and bring anyone interested in startups and building businesses based on the manufacture of physical products: from company boards to organic soap. Chicago has a wealth of production-based companies and capabilities, hackers, makers, makerspaces and our goal is to promote a stronger hardware startup community around it by bringing these people and pieces together with experts in production, academics, engineers, and successful …

This is a group for People living in Will County Illinois, or the northern region of Illinois, who want to assist with getting involved, creating awareness, being a part of something larger then yourself, and connect with other like minded Environmentalists, who want to keep our area safe from negative, polluting, influences. Activism and education is a big part of that awareness.

A group to meet about making and creating, for those of us that don't live in Chicago.

We are a group of positive people who enjoy the spectrum of what life and relationships have to offer. Join us in taking a bite out of life! Whether you are... outgoing or introverted loud and outspoken or shy and reserve upscale or around the way business professional or artsy fartsy party animal or couch potato fashionista or thrift store queen trophy wife or baby mama (you get the idea? have I said enuf?) WE WELCOME YOU! Just the way you are. Lets hang out and enjoy each others company. The …

This group, Thinking for a Change, is what a networking group is all about. We meet to showcase our businesses so others know what we do. Then we LISTEN to what others do. That's when it all begins. We help each other connect for business and we THINK about who we can connect with them. Viola! We make friends; we help each other with referrals; we connect; we think for a change how we can help others, which then helps us (thus the name of our group). We continue to grow as a group and with our b …

How do you feel about growing your business?  Love cold calling?  Love endless meetings that amount to nothing?  Why not join like-minded businesses, enjoy a great meal, participate in a mastermind session that let's everyone know the depth of your knowledge, culminate new relationships and do business when you leave?  All of this in one afternoon with no membership fee.  All the best with none of what you don't like, come out and see for yourself.  We would be honored to welcome you.

"New Funky Funk Millennium". N.F.F.M. Welcome music lovers of all genres, If you are serious about your music career and like to meet-up to discuss some ways to enhance your singing or performance abilities with one another, let's meet-up and have a forum. I engineer digital music and I am looking to meet others who can contribute towards their own creativities because Music comes from everywhere and whether it is coming from the likes of Rap, Rock, Soul, Classical, Funk, Pop Instrumental, scori …

Webster’s dictionary defines entrepreneur as one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. Your law career is the investment you made in yourself. You have to see your career as a business venture that needs to be marketed, managed and organized. Entrepreneurs strategize, think ahead and do not follow the crowd. Your legal career demands that you become a leader and an entrepreneur. Learn the skills that law school did not teach you.