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Chicago, rendered as a miniature of its own landmarks

 

Chicago, Evanston & Naperville

Manufacturing serendipityin Chicago.

Private rooms of Chicago’s founders, operators, and investors learning what technology does for their businesses, investments, and the community they’re building.

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Next 2 weeks in Chicago for investor, founder dinners, workshops and experiences: 12

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Community events belong to their hosts, we just make sure you know. Sources: the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, 1871, mHUB, the Chicago Tech Collaborative, AI Tinkerers Chicago, the Chicago AI Meetup, Startup Grind Chicago, World Business Chicago, Chicago Innovation, plus the Evanston and Oak Brook chambers. Refreshed daily. Members get the full calendar weekly.

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Featured Neighbor

This quarter, the Chicago room is spotlighting Project Exploration

Project Exploration provides hands-on STEM learning and mentorship to Chicago students from communities underrepresented in science.

We send attention their way. They didn’t ask us to, we just think you should know about them. A cause our members can back locally. Share their work with a parent, teacher, or business owner who would want to know. Visit their site to learn more and find the ways to get involved that fit you.

Our nonprofit partner

And the one this whole network is for: Best-Friend.org

Millions of healthy animals are put down simply because shelters run out of room. Best‑Friend.org is the world’s first decentralized nonprofit with a planned ending: it builds the system any community can install to fix that, then shuts itself down because it is no longer needed.

It never asks anyone for money. Sharing is the donation. The rooms build the businesses, and the attention they earn goes to emptying the shelters.

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