This is a community of artists.  We decide.  Value freedom of expression and manufacture the distant present.  Maybe the 21st Century won't be disposable if creative dreamers rescue the increasingly suffocating ozone.

A casterboard is like a skateboard, except it has two wheels. "Ripstik" and "Street Surfing" are a couple of the manufacturers. You can ride on sidewalks, the lakefront, or at a skatepark. Join us if you are a casterboarder or if you'd like to learn how to casterboard. No experience necessary.

There are a ton of Fashion Industry networks, so this is for vendors to connect with each other. If you're looking for a way to really increase your business, this is the group for you. Get the resources you need to be successful. Collaborate with like-minded professional who are actively running their businesses. This is great for: Retailers: boutique owners, free-lance stylist, those who have space and what to maximize the opportunity Photographers: Looking to increase business by staying …

We’re a bunch of dreamers, inventors, and marketeers, all different, so you’ll fit right in! After an “official” presentation, we run an open forum. This can go anywhere, but always gets over to identifying opportunities, finding people to trust and of course, patents. We meet the Third Wednesday of Each Month. The host is John I. Lund, manufacturer and product designer. Drop by! Every month we spend some time to help one of our inventors that may be a little stuck on which way to turn. The grou …

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 …

Chicago Fashion Designer Events was created to give local Chicago designers an outlet to post any events pertaining to fashion: including but not limited to trunk shows, fashion shows, fundraisers, pop-up shops, shopping events and more! Check-in often for upcoming event information on local fashion events.

This meet up is for anyone that is impacted by Big Data in their business, professional, and personal realms. We are starting this meet up to educate and demystify everything around Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Hive, PIG, Datameer, R, etc. and help understand how these new technologies fit within traditional enterprises that have architectures around Mainframe, Windows, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Exadata etc. It is one thing to know technology and another to leverage it appropriatel …