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Popular events in Chicago
Public events coming up in Chicago, United States.
5 Sept
Saturday
21:00
Word On The Water
Today
Sunday
00:30
Girl Dinner on the River
14:00
Coffee Run | ARC x Tabeeb
18:00
Mahjong Open Play
19:00
GOLOSA: DAY PARI FOR THE GAYS, THEYS & BABES 💋
21:00
Chicago | Coffee & Code with TheVibeFounder & Reena Shah
22:00
Sunset Silent Disco @ Hollywood Beach
22:00
Pre - OND bottle Hangs
Tomorrow
Monday
00:30
Against Tech Oligarchy Book Pre-Order Launch Party - Socialism Conference After-Party
13:00
Old Town Athletic - Park Workout
13:00
Lake Street Athletic Run Club
14:00
Old Town Athletic - Park Workout
22:00
SHE’S FITNESS RUN CLUB💞
23:30
Old Town Athletic - Park Workout
8 Sept
Tuesday
22:30
WICYS @ UIC FIRST GBM OF THE YEAR
23:00
OTA Track Club - PM
23:00
Scratchpad Chicago: Session 63
23:00
Solanus Capital Partners & JPMorgan Innovation Economy Team | Founders & Investors Private Networking Evening
23:30
Lake Street Athletic - Patio Workout
9 Sept
Wednesday
11:30
Old Town Athletic - Park Workout
11:30
Lake Street Athletic Run Club
14:00
☕️ 1 Million Cups Chicago ☕️
15:00
Chicago Unconference
21:00
Build & Tell - Chicago (Claude Code Meetup)
23:00
Elixir Meetup Chicago: Software Mansion x dscout
23:00
Waves Women's Walk X Cantigny
23:30
Chicago Film Office Presents: ON SET CONVERSATIONS - Chicago Salutes "The Chi"
23:30
Old Town Athletic - Park Workout
10 Sept
Thursday
00:00
HMS Foundations: Guided Play
00:00
Mental Wellbeing x Tech Hangout
11:30
Old Town Athletic Run Club
21:30
mHUB Community BBQ
23:00
2026 Venture Week x Pixels & Prosecco Mixer: Latinx Panel Edition
23:00
Nucleate Chicago: Activator Launch Event
23:30
Lake Street Athletic - Patio Workout
23:30
How To Run A Small Business Like A Big Corporation
11 Sept
Friday
00:00
Mini Games Party | DinnerClub
11:30
Lake Street Athletic - Strength Club
15:00
Mom Brain - A Reading and Conversation with Kaitlyn Teer from "Little Apocalypses" and Cup of Jo
15:00
SBIR Presentation for Chicago Biotech Innovators: Learn about NCI’s Translational Funding Opportunities
23:30
Tracebit x Cotool - Blue Team Con Bowling Social
12 Sept
Saturday
00:00
Oasis & Nur House Present: Show & Tell
13:30
Mamacitas Unidas: Chisme & Cafecito
13:30
Bridge 2 Beach
16:00
Volunteer with Cardz for Kidz (Volunteering Untapped Chicago)
17:00
CLOSING CEREMONY: café bhuti summer reading program
17:00
Handmade Clay Altars: Sacred Spaces Across Cultures
18:00
Chicago Slovak PRO Meet-up
18:30
MathFit ™ Challenge in Schaumburg, IL
23:00
Blue Team, Off The Clock
23:00
Network after Blue Team Con @ Cindy's Rooftop
23:30
"The Day After"
13 Sept
Sunday
14:00
Juntas Somos Más
15:00
TechWalk | Chicago, 9/13
15:30
Pips in the Park - Open Air Backgammon
17:00
Cyanotype Workshop: Botanicals and Film
19:00
Pitch Competition | The AI Founder Playbook: Build, Get Funded & Scale
20:00
Afro-Asian Folk Art: Batik and Indigo
20:00
Body Neutrality, in practice
20:30
Mahj 101 - the Cork
23:00
Museum of Us: Year One
14 Sept
Monday
21:00
Culture Club Challenge: Infinity vs. Premiere Properties Pickleball Tournament!
22:30
Data in a Dive; Chicago
23:30
September Adavus & Choreo
23:30
Neuron7 AR/VR Launch Party at NoMI Rooftop Garden
15 Sept
Tuesday
00:00
Backgammon Social @ Burning Bush Brewery
14:00
2Flo Ventures Health Investing Symposium | 2026
14:30
3rd Annual Raise The Bar CPO Summit
17:00
What VCs Wish You Knew Before You Pitched Them
17:30
The AI-Powered Agent: Elevate Your Brand & Presentation with KWIN ALC Member and Top Agent Tyler Dameron
21:00
Caught on Camera: Vision AI on the Warehouse Floor
22:30
Learn to Trust Your Intuition: A Hands-on Class
22:30
Chicago Workshop: Building AI Agents You Can Trust
22:30
Automation, MCP, and vibe coding: what gets built vs. what gets shipped
23:00
LangChain Chicago Meetup | MCP Apps: How LangChain Enables Dynamic Agent-Driven UIs
23:00
How Does AI Impact the Way We Learn?
23:00
EDGE 2026
FreePublicCommunity & Networking23:30
SuperDial Dinner at Acanto
23:30
Lake Street Athletic - Patio Workout
23:30
AI in Healthcare: From Pilot to Production - An Executive Dinner — Chicago
16 Sept
Wednesday
00:00
YWS x Grand Cru Chicago: Deep-cut Northern Italian Grapes (night 1)
21:00
True Health Open Gym
21:30
Chicago - International Generalist Day
22:00
Resilience, Reimagined: PagerDuty + AWS Happy Hour
22:00
CIO and Executive Reception at Becker's Healthcare Conference Hosted by Dr. Ashish Atreja, Stanford
23:00
Where is AI in 2026 and Where is it Going?
23:00
Chicago GNU/Linux User Group
23:00
Catan Night at IMTS
23:30
Chicago Film Office Presents ON SET: CONVERSATIONS DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis
17 Sept
Thursday
00:00
YWS x Grand Cru Chicago: Deep-cut Northern Italian Grapes (night 2)
21:30
IMTS Networking Happy Hour with Bild
22:00
The Chicago Edit
22:00
1871 Momentum
22:30
Health2Tech Chicago September 17, 2026
22:30
Grassroots Tech Community Meetup - September
23:00
September Dinner
23:30
Lake Street Athletic - Patio Workout
23:30
Gone Grazy- Sip, Share & Learn
18 Sept
Friday
00:30
Aao Naa Kathak Session
13:00
First Annual Mayerpalooza Golf Outing
21:00
Paletas In The Park
19 Sept
Saturday
00:00
POWRÓT DO CIAŁA: Medycyna Funkcjonalna i Kobieca Więź
14:00
Ashtanga Yoga in the Park
15:00
South Side Small Business Resource Fair
16:00
Romanian Tech & Innovation Summit
16:30
Workout & Worship VII
17:00
LOOP! A Curated Clothing Exchange
20:00
Pirates & Mermaids Picnic
20:30
FTFF Video Shoot
23:00
September Summer: Beats, Bites & Giving Back
20 Sept
Sunday
15:00
Chicago Sprint Club
16:00
Intro to Producing: "All" The Roles
16:00
Caile Al Studio "Slide2TheStu"
17:00
Sudanese Food Fermentation: Mish
19:00
Chicago Code And Coffee September 20th 2026 @ Ferris & Co. 5th floor above Capital One Cafe!
20:00
One Sweet Moment - IL Junk Journal Meetup
22:00
"How Does That Make You Feel?" : A Workshop on Why Feelings Matter
23:00
HALO: The First Experience
21 Sept
Monday
23:30
Backgammon Social @ Hopewell Brewing
22 Sept
Tuesday
13:00
SievoFriends Chicago 2026
16:00
Chicago Members Coworking Open House
22:00
Chicago Angel Investor Meetup
23:00
Your Agent Hasn't Faced Adversity Yet!
23 Sept
Wednesday
13:30
Polsky Exchange Member Breakfast: Arts and Entertainment
21:30
Owning Your Advantage: Practical IP Strategies for AI Startups
22:00
From Tokenmaxxing to Valuemaxxing - Chicago
22:00
Run Club - Chicago Sports Tech
22:30
From Root Cause to AI Agents: Elastic & Gigamon in Action
22:30
UX Social: September
23:00
Chicago | Claude for Finance
23:00
Chicago Power Panel: The Strategy Session
24 Sept
Thursday
15:00
Business Acumen: Marketing That Actually Works
16:00
KWEX Scavenger Hunt
21:00
OpenAI Forum Chicago
22:00
Mahjong 102 - Lynfred
22:00
Ground: A September Evening Downtown
22:00
Soñando y Planeando: Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration Presented by SevenThirty + Latinas in Tech + Techqueria + SHPE
22:30
Generalist vs. Specialist | Build Fast vs. Build Right | Duel over Dinner
22:30
DER Task Force: Home Electrification Meetup
23:00
Chicago - Agentics Foundation Meetup
25 Sept
Friday
18:00
Phin Brewing 101 - September (1pm)
26 Sept
Saturday
15:00
Foto Walk 2026 - Chicago, IL
17:00
West African Basket Weaving Workshop
19:00
Foto Walk 2026 - Chicago, IL
20:00
Mini Film & Play Fest on Expo Day 2: REEL STORIES, REAL VISION
FreePublicConferences & Summits27 Sept
Sunday
16:30
Adult Ballet Workshop-Golden Hour
28 Sept
Monday
22:00
The Real-Time Roundup in Chicago
23:00
Kathak Session
29 Sept
Tuesday
22:00
Intro to Sewing: Tote Bag
22:30
TechWalk | Chicago, 9/29
30 Sept
Wednesday
22:00
Fall 2026 Collaboratorium
22:00
Floral Workshop & Tea Tasting with nerine + Spirit Tea
23:00
CMO Census Chicago: Marketing in the Age of AI
1 Oct
Thursday
15:00
Frontier CHI
22:00
HPA Member Meeting: Industrial, Physical AI & Supply Chain
2 Oct
Friday
21:30
Frontier Happy Hour Chicago
22:00
West Town Art Walk 2026
3 Oct
Saturday
14:00
Hike for Hope - Chicago Basecamp Event
17:00
Puni: Filipino Palm Weaving
4 Oct
Sunday
23:00
KAPCIE MAKING NIGHT 🐑🇵🇱
6 Oct
Tuesday
23:00
Québec–U.S. Transit Rooftop Reception
7 Oct
Wednesday
13:00
Evergreen 2026 CEO Summit
21:30
Networking Happy Hour at 28 Mile
23:00
The steak is the setting. The conversation is the reason.
8 Oct
Thursday
13:30
Leading HR and Organizations in the Age of AI
16:00
TDC Signal Forum Chicago
22:30
Chicago Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
10 Oct
Saturday
14:00
2026 NWR Chicago Marathon Weekend
11 Oct
Sunday
16:00
Maum Market Chicago
13 Oct
Tuesday
12:30
2026 Chicago CISO of the Year - Award Ceremony
FreePublicCommunity & Networking21:30
No. 76 Tech Pulse 2030-Responsible AI Investing & Pitch Showcase-Chicago
15 Oct
Thursday
13:30
A Conversation with Shaka Senghor
23:30
Elanor Labs Launch Party
21 Oct
Wednesday
15:00
RecOps Con Pre-Event Hackathon
22:00
Prescription: Your People
27 Oct
Tuesday
23:00
Tiller: Structure, Gates, and State for Human + Agent Teams
3 Nov
Tuesday
23:30
Tech Pulse 2030
12 Nov
Thursday
19:00
Chicago Amazon Quick User Group
14 Nov
Saturday
23:30
Her Becoming: Aligned
18 Nov
Wednesday
00:00
November Event - Speaker Selected Details Coming Soon
20 Nov
Friday
00:30
Deal Her In x Friendsgiving
1 Dec
Tuesday
23:30
Tech Pulse 2030
16 Dec
Wednesday
00:00
December Event - Special Event Planned Details Coming Soon
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