Freethought Families of Chicago represent a local group of parents and families in the Chicagoland area with secular worldviews, humanist mindsets, and value science-based education. Those who wish to join us can look forward to regular family-friendly (and freethought-friendly) events and meetups around the area. Freethought Families of Chicago is affiliated with and run by the Chicago Freethought Project.

We are a secular group of home educating families in the DeKalb County area. This group is for families to connect, share information, and organize fun activities. We welcome families who are home educating their children either part or full time.  For the safety of our group members, we ask you to attend one public event before being allowed full access to our message boards.

Meet other local atheists, agnostics and secular humanists. Gather to discuss beliefs and philosophies, and make new friends.

We are a secular group of homeschooling families living on the west side of St. Charles (Campton Hills/Lily Lake). We are just beginning our journey and looking for more homeschooling families to connect with, share information and organize fun and educational activities. Our focus is on the early years child (ages 2-8), however,  all are welcome to join us!

Working towards building a sustainable active network of Chicagoland secular organizations and to enrich the lives of freethinkers.

Are you looking to meet some non-judgemental, kind, friendly and helpful homeschooling/unschooling families?  Are you looking for fun social outtings, or weekly playdates? Then this group may be for you. This secular homeschool group provides both unstructured and structured social activities, field trips and some group learning activities to families in the Wheaton area with children ranging in age from infant to 14. Our members live from Downers Grove and Lombard to Naperville and West Chicago …

Finally! A group to support South Bend Freethinkers and the non-religious! Let's get together to commune, to share food & fun, to learn, debate, and discuss, to hold family activities, and to support each other. We're here to provide a home for those who feel alone and isolated from their religious community, and to proudly declare our non-belief.

The Ethical Humanist Society is a congregation for those who seek a rational, compassionate philosophy of life without regard to belief or non-belief in a supreme being.

A support group for those who have recently broke free from religion and are finding difficulty coping or who are struggling to leave their faith and need guidance and advice. This group was formed and operated by the Chicago Freethought Project.

Under Construction (but join!) (Note that this page as well as some outgoing links are NSFW.) This group is for people who have an intuition of something better, and who are pursuing it in every direction simultaneously. You have a sense of rightness and wrongness that cuts to the bone, and it doesn't line up with traditional religion or the zeitgeist. You're an information sponge, but you hold it all provisionally and pragmatically. You know that all truths are partial perspectives, i.e. wrong …

The Humanists of West Suburban Chicagoland is a membership chapter of the American Humanist Association. Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_humanism...

Help make this group what you want/need it to be. We always welcome new members with new ideas for events, discussions, and get-togethers! Providing community, inquiry, and outreach based on rationality and science. Skeptics, free-thinkers, atheists, agnostics, humanists. Events are open to the public.

"Stranger, here you do well to tarry; Here our highest good is pleasure" Join a gathering of Friends to discuss applied Epicurean philosophy; the research, science and philosophy of happiness; simple living, frugality, self-sufficiency; ataraxia, living the pleasant life and the analysed life, even perhaps gardening and other Epicurean interests as presented in the webpage for the International Society of Friends of Epicurus: societyofepicurus.com/ For more on Epicureanism, you may visit newepic …

"If you are one of the many people who have determined that religion no longer has a place in their life, but are still dealing with the after-effects in some way or another, Recovering From Religion may be just the right spot for you. Many people come to a point that they no longer accept the supernatural explanations for the world around them, or they realize just how much conflict religious belief creates. It can be difficult to leave religion because family and culture put so much pressure o …

If you're a skeptic, humanist, or freethinker and want to hang with other birds of your plumage, then this semi-regular event is for you. Skeptics In The Pub is an event for rationally minded people to come together and have fun discussions about interesting topics over an adult beverage. SITP events began in England, and have now arrived where they belong - in the city of beer.

This is a discussion group about Positive Psychology Topics.

Black Nonbelievers of Chicago is a group of freethinkers, humanists, nonbelievers, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, untitled, etc. convening to discuss and implement solutions based freethought to under served communities.

If you’ve seen the critically acclaimed Peter Joseph independent film, Zeitgeist The Movie, and are curious and/or intrigued by the information presented in Part 1 of the three-part film, and would like to be part of a discussion to learn more, join us! Whether you call yourself a mythicist, atheist or agnostic – we’re just looking for people who want to share their knowledge or learn more about how ancient religions have influenced some of the major religions of today’s modern age. Our goal is …

Here in Chicago, the group meetsevery 4th Monday of the month. Agnostics, atheists, humanists, naturalists, skeptics, freethinkers, etc. joining together for good food, drink and lively conversation.

Meet other local atheists and freethinkers. Gather to discuss beliefs and philosophies, and make new friends. Discuss contemporary issues regarding hispanics/latinos and the predominance of religion in our culture. Make atheists more visible in our local communities by promoting education, community service, secular religious education and upholding the separation of church and state.

This is a social-intellectual group in the spirit of the late great Atheist scholar and whiskey imbiber Christopher Hitchens. This group will meet bi-monthly at various local and friendly Chicago watering holes for camaraderie, community, mild drunkenness, and free-spirited discussions about the virtues and obstacles of our identity. We will also demonstrate through practice that ethical and altruistic behavior is innate and beneficial and not dependent upon a celestial creation. All Backgrounds …