THE NEW YEAR HAS BEGUN!! LETS GET STARTED WITH OUR GROUP AND FUN STUFF TO DO!! EXPLORING AWESOME, COOL, FUN PLACES IN CHICAGO, DANCING, ART, MUSEUMS, UNIQUE THINGS TO DO, INDIE MOVIES, CULTURAL, SOCIAL EVENTS, FUN EXPLORING PLACES TO EAT:), WALL-CLIMBING? PARACHUTING, HOT-AIR BALLOON? BOATING, WALKING OR ON WHEELS? NATURAL/OF NATURE, MAN-MADE WONDERS, SIMPLE OR EXTRAVAGANT EVENTS, PAMPERING SELF, GIVING TO COMMUNITY, MEMBERS SPEAK, INVITE GUESTS ON VARIED TOPICS, OUTDOORS AND INDOORS THINGS TO D …

We're a bunch of hackers, pirates, ninjas, thinkers, tinkerers, inventors, engineers, explorers, and makers. We're known for our thought-provoking beer and delicious content. We love security. Come at your risk.

The CNC Build Club is a group of people working on numerically controlled machines (3D printers, laser cutters, routers, etc). We meet every Thursday night at Pumping Station: One, Chicago's Premier hackerspace. Regardless of your experience level, you can become part of the digital fabrication revolution by joining a project already in progress, or come up with your own idea and recruit others to work with you!

This meetup is dedicated to incubating the support, continued education, and networking of building performance professionals, including: -Building Engineers and Operators -Contractors, Builders and Architects -Energy Auditors and Diagnosticians -Inspectors, Appraisers and Realtors -Inventors, Suppliers and Manufacturers of High-Performance Products -Researchers, Trainers, and Policy/Program Directors We meet once a month in the Chicagoland area to participate in short trainings, ask and answer …

I would like to welcome everybody who is interested in Russian culture, history and language. Being a teacher of Russian History and International Affairs I started this group to share my knowledge and passion for this powerful, diverse, wild and beautiful country. Having a 7 year old son I am working every day on passing my knowledge onto him. We study Russian language, learn Russian history, Russian geography and natural resources, Russian culture of course etc. Listening to Tchaikovsky and Ra …

----May I invite all who can to join me and become POLAR BEARS FOR THE POLAR BEARS, at Fargo Street beach, two blocks south of Howard, every morning at seven thirty? Since autumn I have been in swimming regularly. I run in the water and dip myself and paddle madly with my hands for a minute or two. I wear old sneakers and a bathing suit. THE POLAR BEARS ARE DROWNING because they must swim longer and longer distances between ice flows as the ice cap on the Arctic Ocean melts owing the global warm …

We like reading compelling books on feats of science, technology and engineering derring-do! If you love reading about the amazing lives of radical inventors, laboratory wizards, eccentric investigators, audacious builders and their triumphs and tragedies, then you've found your club! We'll pick out a book, devour it cover-to-cover, and then meetup to discuss what we really liked about it. We'll pick different meeting places in or around Chicago, so everyone's welcome!