As Chicago's leader in speed dating and singles parties, Chicago First Dates is the preferred choice of professional men and women seeking love and friendship. Our events have become the most successful and talked-about speed dating and singles parties in town! Our events offer an ingenious way for single men and women to meet each other. We bring them together in one place to meet, mingle, and see if there are matches between them. The result is a completely energetic and fun-filled event wher …

Lock and Key Events are the new, interactive and FUN way to network, meet your match, make new friends....or just to have a great time! Be sure to get on our email list so we can notify you of the next party in Chicago or Lincoln Park! How It Works Every woman gets a Lock. Every man gets a Key. Your goal is to match the right key with the right padlock. Every time you unlock you get a ticket that enters you into the drawing to win great prizes from our party sponsors. Prizes such as cold hard ca …

The Chicago Indians Meetup Group is for anyone who wishes to meet and socialize with others who share an interest, a connection, or a passion with Indian culture! Whether you were born in the motherland or you've recently grown fond of Hindi films and samosas, you can count on CIMG to put together a cool/fun/interesting meetup to get your dose of Indian-ness. See you soon yaar!

This group is specifically for single African-American and Latino professionals interested in meeting other like-minded professionals for the purpose of finding love! This group is owned and operated by matchmaking agency, Shawn Mackenzi Agency. We all know how difficult it is to find honest, intelligent, and driven people in Chicago. This group will take away some of that hardship. Each month, this group will hold a networking event at one of Chicago premiere restaurants. We will eat, we will l …

Chicago Electronic Music Meetup Guidelines for members - updated April 20, 2013 MEETUPS for this group can now be categorized into TWO EVENT TYPES. EVENT HOSTS will classify each meetup so standard expectations can be met by both members and event hosts. TYPE 1 MEETUP: Those that RSVP will be given contact info to the host and will meetup on a case by case basis. No meetup beforehand is scheduled and it is up to the member and host to coordinate. TYPE 2 MEETUP: Those that RSVP will be given t …

Chicago Meetup is Chicago's Meetup Group for creativity, style, life, and nightlife.  With over 3,000 members, Chicago Meetup is the largest Arts & Culture Meetup Group in Chicago and is one of its largest overall.  Nearly shut down in July 2009 when its original founder left, the group has flourished as Chicago's most eclectic Meetup Group and one of the city's most active and fastest-growing groups. Because it operated for over three years as the Creative Social Club and remains dedicated to e …

Thanks The Day of Games (www.thedayofgames.com) for sponsoring the group! Bocce, Horseshoes, Bags, Beer Pong, and more! The awesome group........Targeting, but not limited to, those who are new in town and mainly in their 20's or 30's, here is a group designed for getting together to enjoy events/shows in the Chicago area. Events include sporting, concerts, happy hour, and whatever else that attracts interest. Meet at bars, parks, baseball/basketball games, rec-leagues, or anywhere that sounds …

Our group exists for single parents AND their children. You must be a SINGLE parent. Single means divorced, widowed, or never married in the first place. We get together primarily for activities WITH our children. We may have adults-only events as well, but most of the events will be with the kids. We are NOT a dating group. We welcome you to join us! If you have ideas for meetups, please let us know. We welcome anyone in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Powerful, beautiful, successful and feminine! Do you think of yourself as a Professional Lipstick Lesbian and wonder where all the other Chicago lipstick lesbians are? Well we hope to meet and congregate here with this group. The first and foremost aim of this group is to have fun! Do you enjoy mani’s and pedi’s, current fashion trends, local trendy restaurants, make up, heels, fine wine, live music, an occasional night out dancing? We are a very small, selective group of attractive, 25 - 50, fe …

Speed-dating can be expensive. The entry price alone is around $35 to $40, and then you have the drinks and transportation... This would all be fine if you felt pretty sure you were going to meet your one-and-only that night, but often you simply need to go a few times to come across the person that's right for you. Don't get us wrong - we're huge fans of speed-dating. We think it way better than online dating, as you can not beat a quick face-to-face encounter to establish if the chemistry is …

Eat Me! Chicago is part of FeastMonkey.com, a national social network of chefs and foodies who get together face to face for unique adventure dining experiences. We rely on our members to help post ideas and organize meetup events. If you have an idea just post it and see who likes it. If we get enough interest we'll make it happen. Join our national members on http://www.feastmonkey.com to receive special offers and get invited to exclusive events. You can also follow us on twitter or facebook …

This Singles group made for people who would love to meet new friends and possibly find that perfect somebody. we will host minimum 1 event a month Most events will be in Chicago area People from suburbs are welcome to join this group as long as you are aware most events will be in Chicago we are always looking for ideas and new venues to host events age groups are 24-45 35-55 40-65 we are going to also try cougar event and reverse cougar events

Welcome to The Chicago Loop Happy Hour group! We're Bryan and Tom, your humble Happy Hour facilitators. The Loop Happy Hour group is a unique meetup group created to provide all of us in the Loop with fun after-work opportunities to meet people and make friends while exploring the Loop's drinking establishments--all 72 of them! (But we won't technically limit ourselves to the Loop. There are some great places a few blocks North of Lake, West of Wells, East of Wabash, and South of Van Buren.) Ev …

Being bored means you're boring.... get out of the house and Mingle! We host hot singles parties, fun social events and free singles mixers every month in Chicago and the suburbs. Over 8,000 members for you to mingle with on facebook, the official website and here on meetup. Our events are both tame and insane...we leave the decision up to you what ones to RSVP for. The events are held in both Chicago and the suburbs, so don't be shy to join if you live in Joliet, Niles, Skokie or Oak Park. …

Single men and women gather for sporting activities, parties, performances, art evenings, lectures, seminars, courses, volunteer vacations, weekend getaways, dining in favorite restaurants, entertainment events suggested by members of the Tribe of positive, successful singles.

Sail Chicago is a community sailing program that has been offering affordable sailing instruction, recreational sailing opportunities, racing, and social events for member adults for more than fifty years. Our all volunteer organization owns and operates our own fleet of sailboats in four Chicago harbors on Lake Michigan.

This group is specifically designed for ladies in their 20s and 30s who live in the Chicago area. The goal of the group is to meet new friends, go out with the girls, and participate in a multitude of activities. Example of activities are things like happy hour, movie nights, festivals, night out with the girls, socializing dinners, wine tasting, exercise, or whatever else we all think of that are in and around Chicago, IL. All relationship statuses are welcome those who are single, coupled, eng …

If you are part of a couple, please make separate individual accounts for each member of your relationship. NO 'COUPLES' ACCOUNTS. Click on the Join us! button in the upper right to get started. Welcome to Poly-Under-40, we're proud to be the most active polyamory organization in North America.  Poly-Under-40 is as social network for young adults exploring polyamory or living our individual poly styles. If you are a young adult looking for a friendly, supporting social group where you can learn …

This Meetup is designed to bring fun, cool, outgoing people in Chicago together for some great and unique events around our great city. We will be enjoying exclusive parties, VIP events, charity fundraisers and themed events! Age range- 20's-30's

The Ivy League Alumni Club of Chicago Welcome, Chicago Ivy Leaguers! We are a face-to-face social network of alumni from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Upenn, and Yale. We host professional networking events and publish a weekly newsletter with job postings catered to alumni of these schools in the Chicago area.  We also organize career enhancing professional events weekly and monthly in our city. In order to become an official member of this group, you must verify s …

Calling on singles across the West Town neighborhoods of Noble Square, Ukrainian Village, Wicker Park, Bucktown & Logan Square. It's now our time to begin celebrating our neighborhoods, supporting local businesses and meeting other like-minded single people.

Our events are for South Asian single professionals from the Chicago metro and suburban area. We organize and host South Asian events to introduce singles to each other for love, friendship, business, or any other type of social relationship.

CitySwarm offers event experiences for fun-loving Chicagoans interested in exploring the city in an easier and more social way! Our events cater to the "young professional" demographic - ages 24-39. There's a million fun things to do in Chicago, but too often we don't take advantage! It's too time-consuming to organize, too hard to get a group together, or too expensive. There are so many options, people are flaky...really, is there anything worse than organizing an event? Say hello to CitySwar …

Welcome to Enjoy Life Chicago! If you have participated in events with the Chicago Black Professionals Social Network, I was their premier Event Organizer for 2 years. You may have met me at one of the over 300 events I organized, hosted, or attended from Jan. 2011- Jan. 2013. Most of our fun, exciting and diverse activities have an aspect that make them of particular interest to African-Americans. I have arranged jazz/blues nights, film screenings, wine tastings, holiday celebrations, cultural …

Chicago Social Events will be putting together tons of events for 20-30 somethings that focus on one thing: Meeting people and having fun. Well, that's kind of two things...Our group will live by the motto "A good time is all about who you share it with". I've been putting up our events in other Meetup groups for the past several months and have seen amazing turnouts with such great people, so now it just makes sense to create my own! We'll be organizing groups to do things like happy hours, tr …

Hello Everyone! Being over 50 is NOT so bad – in fact, I’m feeling like the best years of my life are yet to come! So …… if like me, you've been attending various Meetup events feeling like you’re the parent who showed up to "crash" the party -- well THIS group is for you! Imagine mixing and mingling with an age group of 50+ like-minded ladies and gentlemen! This group will focus on making all types of connections, especially the social and romantic kinds. We'll get together for casual and fine …

This is a group for single moms age 23-33. The reason I put an age restriction is so that we are all able to relate to one another, which is hard when there's a big age gap. My friend Angelia and I wanted to start a group for women like us, single moms, living in the city, who know how hard it is to raise a child on our own, financially, socially and emotionally. It doesn't matter if you are divorced, never married, if the dad is present or not, the purpose of this group is to provide a way for …