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 …

Thanks for joining. Trying to help build a community for other holistic practitioners. We try to meet up occasionally and be a support network for the healing community.

Hi fellow introverts. Please read guidelines below, before joining this group. (Thank you) We schedule most of our meetups in Lake County, but since we've been getting more members from all over the place, we've been scheduling more meetups in Chicago, Cook County suburbs, and a few north of the border in Wisconsin, or a bit West in McHenry County, just to give you an idea of locations. For those of us who are introverts/loners and/or "live inside" our heads, making new friends can be more of a …

Be a part of this exciting Tantra community in Chicago! We are a diverse group comprised of brand new beginners to tantric teachers and adepts, we are singles, couples, or more, and whatever your sexual orientation - all are welcome!  We offer a wide variety of events, from social monthly potlucks, to mini-workshops on compassionate communication, massage, meditation/breathing, partner yoga, and tantric teachings and practices.  We also offer longer weekend workshops led by our local teacher …

The Chicago Rebel Craft League is a meetup group organized to inspire women who love arts and crafts of all kinds and have different interests and passions to get together to create, share, talk and learn about art... If you'd like to get together to craft, get inspired, and learn from others with a DIY aesthetic, then this group is for you! We will have open studio time where you can just come, hang out, create and have fun, and more specific classes where we will do projects together. Ideall …

NERP provides a place for learning, discussing, and experimenting with the Raspberry Pi. Although our main focus is on using the Pi, other relevant topics include embedded devices, Open Source Hardware and Software, interfacing to the real world, development tools, circuits, and so on. Topics can be of general interest or advanced and highly focused. The NERP wiki lists many resources for learning and using the Pi. NERP meets every other Monday at Pumping Station:One. The meeting is free and ope …

WHY SHAREPOINT? Currently SharePoint is one of the hottest technologies in the marketplace today. Companies are adopting it at record pace. This has create a huge demand for SharePoint knowledge and not enough people to supply that demand. IT Professionals: SharePoint 2010 helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher priorities. Developers: SharePoint 2010 helps you build custom applications and components to rapidly respond to business needs. End U …

The challenges and joys unique to a single parent are many. Lake County, IL PWP Chapter #247's mission is to provide a family oriented social outlet for single parents and our children. We are not a support group, but we do support each other in our common goal of raising healthy, happy and well adjusted children in our single parent families. To contact us, please go to our home page: http://pwplakecounty.org/ or call: PWP Hotline: (847) 817-5687 or Email: info@pwplakecounty.org

The purpose of this group is to help promote belly dancing and belly dancers in the Greater Chicagoland area. This provides a cohesive effort to let other bellydancers know of great workshops in the area, dance benefits, dance performances, and cool cultural events that may benefit for the greater good and interest of this dance and the cultures of the countries from whence it comes.

The Greater Chicago Dutch Language Meetup is a young and growing club in the Chicago area. We facilitate meetings of Dutch, Belgian, American, Indonesian, Dutch Caribbean, and other natives with interests in Dutch language and culture. We meet every month at restaurants with some of the above cuisines, pubs, private homes, parks, forest preserves, and the beach! This club was founded in August 2009 and already can boast impressive statistics: It is by now the largest Netherlands and Belgium-orie …

If you wanted to have children, but can't, or if you just don’t want children, for whatever reasons, this group is for you. I want to create a social circle of women who I can relate to without the stigma or pity, of being childless. I sometimes feel out of place with my family, friends and work colleagues, because I don’t have children at home. The group is an inclusive one, therefore your race, sexual orientation, religion, disability, belief and age is irrelevant. If you are a woman, single o …

The Green Oaks, Libertyville, Mundelein, Vernon Hills Area Chamber of Commerce (GLMV) is the largest and most active chamber in Lake County, Illinois. The GLMV Chamber of Commerce is an active and positive voice on behalf of its members, working to create a favorable environment for business. The GLMV Chamber is an advocate for business, actively supporting and promoting local business in the bustling Green Oaks, Libertyville, Mundelein and Vernon Hills area. We further provide numerous prog …

We started this group with the intention of finding other young (20s and 30s) Jewish families and singles to both celebrate and worship with. A few ideas are Saturday morning family-oriented services/play dates/brunch, parents-nights-out, Torah study/book club and holiday-specific events. More than anything else, we want to develop a Jewish family of our generation in the area, regardless of denominational attachment, or lack thereof. Interfaith, LGBT, multicultural members of "the tribe" are al …

This group is for people who are feeling tired and stressed and even bored and are looking to 'fill up' again, renewing their zest for life.  This is a group tries to provide activities that are healthful for the mind, body and soul.  It is my belief that one cannot achieve true health unless the mind, body and soul are taken care of. We are following Environmental Justice policy which means, all people of any race, gender, religion, nationality, age, health status, economic status, orientation …

This group will meet to discuss and discover the d'Odalisque lifestyle. Taken from the Gild of the Black Pearl "Code d' Odalisque is a genre or style of non-violent consensual slave play engaged in by willing adult men and women. It is a modern revival of aspects of the historical institution of odalisque (female sexual servant) in a consensual form. Play is guided by a written code of rules, etiquette and protocols. The genre or style is an alternative sub-culture within the broader BDSM commun …

Have you ever felt insecure, powerless, or like you could use a huge boost of confidence at your job, with men or women, or just in life in general? Have you ever felt stuck, procrastinated, or got in a pattern where life kind of seems boring? Have you ever dreamed of living the most amazing, passionate, awesome life but don't know what steps to take to change, or felt you just can't seem to get a break, almost like you have the worst luck? If you answered yes to any or all of the above question …

WHY SHAREPOINT 2010?  LATEST UPDATE Many organizations are doing quite well with their 2007 and 2003 SharePoint farms. However, Microsoft has announce the next version of SharePoint 2013 this year.  Additionally, Microsoft will discontinue formal support of SharePoint 2007 in October 2012. This will be a huge push to 2010, depending upon the size of an organization’s SharePoint installation. If it’s small and not utilizing much of the complexity of SharePoint, it might not be a factor.  Large im …

This is a group for anyone interested in connecting with other youth and family religious leaders in the Chicagoland area. Let's meet up to support and relate to one another in our programs by sharing ideas and resources, brainstorming, asking questions, collaborating, attending conferences together, reading books and sharing stories. I believe religious leaders of youth and families are wonderfully creative people, so lets get together and let our creativity generate something wonderful. My hop …

Discourse cheers us to companionable reflection. Such reflection neither parades polemical opinions nor does it tolerate complaisant agreement. The sail of thinking keeps trimmed hard to the wind of the matter. -- from "On the Experience of Thinking," Heidegger "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity." -- from "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," Wittgenstein Join us soon for friendship, cooperative discourse and mental exercise, all organized around an interest in our own engagements …

If you are reading this, your life has most likely taken a major turn. This group is for anyone who desires SUPPORT in dealing with a present or recent divorce experience. It is NOT a dating group and is NOT a singles group. If meeting someone of the opposite sex and dating is your goal... find an appropriate group. We are not the group for you. Also, if you are a professional that deals with matters of divorce and are trying to gain clientele - do not join. We are a SUPPORT group and We are a P …

This group is hosted by the Furies MC - a women's motorcycle club that aims to encourage women riders in a safe, supportive and educational environment. Learn more about us at www.furiesmc.com. We are a diverse group of women and we welcome women of all ethnicities, lifestyles, orientations and backgrounds, no matter the brand of bike or experience level.  You do not need to be a member of the Furies MC to participate in our rides or in this meetup! Although we have great respect for our scooter …

We're here to explore social networking outside of the bars except during special events, such as Scot's Easter brunch. All races, genders, and orientations are welcome. Our main purpose is to bring people together and have fun. Along the way, you may find cool places to go that you may not have tried otherwise. Come on in!

Aggrego hack night - for all the times you wished you could have hacked on something in the Chicago Sun-Times building. Now you can. Aggrego aims to use data collection, data analytics, visualization technology to create the next generation of digital media. Come hack with us!

Welcome to The Girlfriends and Giggles Social Club of Chicago, or as we affectionally call ourselves, "The G & G". We are a fun, active and casual meetup group for women in the NW suburbs and greater Chicagoland area, ages 25+. Whether you are single, married, partnered, widowed, divorced or separated we are looking to make new friends, have lots of fun in the process and hopefully are the right fit for you! We have a very high rate of returning members to our meetups and we pride ourselves on b …

So you're bored, I mean like really bored and you decided to sign up for meet up. There are some crazy folks out there and meeting them in private at a local spot still seems disheartening. He might be bald or she might have 10 kids and three divorce under her belt..yea, crazy shit. My goal for this meetup group is to occasionally hit up clubs/bars and dance our asses off. Maybe grab some last minute tickets to go see a-no-longer-in-his-prime-but-is-still-trying comedy show, a good laugh is alw …

Milwaukee 3D Printing Meetup is a group for 3D printing enthusiasts - old and new, business-oriented or maker-minded. We arrange monthly meetups for everyone to network, share ideas and resources and learn about the emerging maker tool that has potential to change the world!

Meet other local Software Developers interested in the Scala programming language. Discuss the advantages of Scala, such as full support for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming, a succinct syntax, and other improvements over Java and C#. Discuss the pros and cons of Scala compared to other languages. Learn how to use Scala in Java and .NET environments.

I started this group to fill a personal void that I know isn't uniquely mine-- authentic friendship! Are you in your late 20's or 30's? Are you married or in a committed relationship and need more social time than your partner? New in town? Kinda new in town? ... most importantly... are you looking for honest and authentic women to connect with? Ideal elements of this group include: open minds, wine, conversation, laughter, connection, companionship, support, validation, authenticity, inspiratio …