Europeans and Europhiles who want to trade ideas and secrets to bringing more Europe to everyday American life.

Do you ever desire to become a more elegant communicator? Do you seek to be the #1 champion in your professional field? Or do you finally want to hone your SOFT skills (people skills) and ultimately communicate your hard skills at their best? Have you ever wondered when people say: "Your hard skills will get you the interview and your soft skills will get you the job?" Fortunately we've heart that NLP* has already helped millions of people achieve greater success, increase confidence, enrich rel …

Meet local users from pros to hobbyists who love and use Photoshop, Lightroom, Elements, Aperture and iPhoto to trade tips and techniques. Get inspired, network and share your work. Join us! Yearly membership fees:$10.00 Your support helps this local community group going! Thanks!

Meet other local webmasters to exchange experiences in programming, administration, hosting, development, design, or just to meet to chat and learn. What makes a webmaster? Well, the first is 'wearing many hats' as we're more than just producers, designers and programmers; we're often jacks/jills-of-all-trades and this group. Want to learn more? Join! Sharing experiences and ideas will be the key focus of this group. We'll host seminars and topics based on what YOU'd like to see. Looking f …

This group is for Chicago-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, UX Designers, Web Producers, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. Sorry, but since this group is about meeting face to face every month, so only people residing in the Chicago area will be admitted. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare the latest tools and trends, theories …

Meet, mingle and trade yarns with local knitters! Come to a Knitters Meetup and have fun comparing patterns, sharing techniques and trading tips on stitches, sweaters and mittens. I want to get a group of knitters of all experience levels together in the Logan Square, Wicker Park, and Bucktown neighborhoods. Let's meet up at coffee shops, our apartments or wherever and get stitching!

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about our currency trading group. We hope it will serve as a great starting point if you are new to currency trading, in addition help advanced traders share ideas and techniques regarding the currency market. This group also gives us the opportunity to expose others to the currency market, and bring awareness to it as an alternative asset class. The Chicago Currency Trading group will be lead by Saul Shaoul, CME Group Floor Member, Trader and Trading  …

Group for active traders in Chicago. Meetup to discuss trading systems and strategies. Day traders, swing traders and long term investors welcome. Also covers multiple markets: stocks, futures, options and forex.

Foreign Currency Exchange (Forex) Traders helping on another.

Meet with other local floor and online traders (face to face or online to your PC through our state of the art webinar tools) who engage in futures, index's, stocks, commodities and forex trading. The goals is to create a supportive environment where all group members can share their ideas, learn something new and ultimately achieve success in their trading plan. Our group includes experienced local floor and online traders and newbie’s looking to start out on the right trading foot. We will …

If you are a trading educator and/or an experienced trader and would like to host a meetup, please email the organizer. The Chicago Stocks and Forex Traders Network was created with the purpose of gathering all people interested in starting or improving their stock or forex trading business. Yes, as a Market Trader, you are in business for yourself so one must treat it very much like a business and not a hobby. Which means being well educated in your craft and having a business plan (trading pla …

Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is a nonprofit association of individuals and organizations building effective, more sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies. SEA has emerged as the common ground for practitioners, lenders, investors, grant makers, consultants, researchers, and educators who recognize the increasing impact of social enterprise. SEA provides its members with current information, tools, and other resources that address the unique needs of social enterprises. Socia …

The goal of this group is to share trading ideas for securities, forex and futures markets that are suitable to build automated trading strategies. We would meet at various locations in Chicagoland (there are plenty of cafes to visit) over the weekend or in the evenings to share and brainstorm ideas. Bring your laptops, charts and ideas to share - good ones, and still under the development. We can help each other.

The Startup Trebuchet Entrepreneurs’ Clinics create environments to explore the challenges of securing the best position in launching and maintaining a business. The groups are purposefully kept small, with 10 – 20 participants, to allow for in-depth discussion of actual issues. These are not lectures, but rather highly interactive sessions. Subjects range from entity formation, establishing co-founder agreements, protecting intellectual property and trade secrets, business assumption validati …

Are you interested in learning about options, futures, and options on futures. This group will help connect new traders to experienced traders, and experienced traders to others with experience and professionals. If you are interested in trading options and not being bored, this is the group for you. This group will help traders get serious about options and futures.

We meet to talk about Bitcoin.

This group is dedicated towards helping investors and traders meetup and share ideas. The meetup will be hosted by Simit Patel, founder of InformedTrades.com and ambassador of FXCM, a publicly traded foreign exchange trading broker. Simit will start things off by sharing the trades he placed over the past week as well as any major news headlines he thought were particularly important. Members are invited to share their trades, questions, or news items they think are discussion-worthy as well. A …

The Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois (BACCIL) is an international association committed to enhancing bilateral cooperation and promoting both trade and investment between Brazil and organizations and individuals in the State of Illinois. The BACCIL Chamber is an advocate for business, actively supporting and promoting business between IL and Brazil. The Chamber offers a variety of networking events, marketing opportunities, publications, educational seminars, trade and business …

This is a private, weekly group that meets for the educational purpose of assisting individual traders to develop and perfect personalized trading strategies that are aligned with the individual's purposes and goals. This group is an extension of the monthly Chicago Trading Group (www.meetup.com/chicagotradinggroup) as an ongoing educational series designed to detail concepts presented on the monthly meeting. A subscription fee is required for admission to this group.

We are all graduates of the Online Trading Academy. The purpose of this site is to keep fellow graduates in contact with one another to provide support and accountability. We all have one thing in common: We decided to spend a lot of money to invest in ourselves to increase our skills as traders.It would be nice to be connected to like minded individuals to share ideas, spur one another on, have fun and just "do life together"

Northside Wine Collection Club is an established form of alternative investment that can offer impressive returns. The wine market is based upon simple supply and demand economics. Bordeaux has the most stable financial market of all wine producing regions, while in each decade only 3-4 vintages out of every 10 have wines of a high enough quality for investment purposes. A chateau can only produce a unique and finite amount of wine each year. As this is happening the wine is maturing and becomin …

How do you...or did you... find a good contractor or material supplier when remodeling? Where do you start? How do you go about finding the right people? Reputable & reasonable people?  People you can trust? Get information you need or share information that you have. Join others who are curious, anxious or frustrated about how to find a good, reputable & reliable contractor for your home or remodeling or construction project? This will also be a social group of sorts.  Meeting at home indus …

The Chicago Chiefs is a new meetup for all Chiefs fans that live in the greater Chicagoland area. This is a great group for all pro football fans even if you don't follow a favorite club. There is no better time to be a KC fan or adopt the Chiefs as your new team. With a dismal record last season, the Chiefs future is bright with new GM John Dorsey and Head Coach Andy Reid leading the way for a far improved franchise. During the offseason this meetup will debate topics such as: the Chiefs upcomi …

Want to enjoy DELICIOUS meals!?Discover NEW Restaurants!? Make new FRIENDS!? JOIN US! It's a big dinner table and all are welcome! So many delicious foods, great people to meet, & cool places to see, let’s go! If that's not enough the meals are all discounted! Our FUN DINING EVENTS are for ALL BUDGETS in Chicago, Burbs, & Beyond! Chicago Vegetarians: For health, environment, or animal rights find a new great place to dine, trade tips, share recipes and meet others. Chicago Singles Dining: Meet o …

Actions. Speak. Louder. At ONE, we achieve change through advocacy. We hold world leaders to account for the commitments they've made to fight extreme poverty, and we campaign for better development policies, more effective aid and trade reform. We also support greater democracy, accountability and transparency to ensure policies to beat poverty are implemented effectively. ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to mobilize public opinion in support …

The Word of Mouth Marketing Association is the official trade association dedicated to word of mouth and social media marketing. Founded in 2004, WOMMA is the leader in ethical word of mouth marketing practices through its education such as WOMMA Summit, professional development opportunities, and knowledge sharing with top industry marketers. WOMMA’s membership is made up of the most innovative companies committed to progressing the word of mouth marketing industry through advocacy, education, …

This is for anyone who has a passion for the stock market and has the desire to network with other like minded individuals.

The purpose of this group is educate on and share trading and investment concepts. Each month we will start with a welcoming meet and greet which will be followed by a guest presenter. After the guest presenter we will do a town hall style market review from both a technical and fundamental perspective. As our meet up will grow and we call upon our connections in the industry to attract well known guest speakers to address our group. Meet with, other local people who engage in short-term tra …