Shannon Downey
Entrepreneur, Digital Strategist, World Traveler, Teacher, Do Gooder, Blogger, All Round Positive Person

Join over 200 women scientists and engineers at this day long symposium focused on:
• Highlighting innovative, game-changing women in diverse science and engineering fields
• Discussing modern approaches to research practice, work-life balance, entrepreneurship and administration
• Providing meaningful opportunities for...

entrprnr is partnering with #MsTech to bring you SweetHack, a hackathon aiming to unite the communities of two thriving and burgeoning entrepreneurial hubs, New York and Chicago, under the cause of creating new and better tools for entrepreneurs worldwide.

An intimate gathering of Chicago's brightest entrepreneurs, to identify the differences and similarities in trends between Chicago and NYC entrepreneurism, as well as the tools that need to be built to aid business and job creation in the current economy.
Followed by a Cocktail reception featuring our very own drink: SweetHack 'n Lime. If...

Chicago Ideas Week ("CIW") is the platform for ideas, created for innovators, thinkers, doers, and interested members of the Chicago and greater Midwestern area. With a goal to stimulate new initiatives and ventures, create new connections and collaborations, and establish a community of people who have the desire to connect to achieve...

Brand Blogger Twitter Party -
@bookieboo & @mommypr are hosting a Social Media Masters Summit blogger brand twitter party! The grand prize is a RT ticket on Southwest Airlines AND a VIP ticket to the summit. Details on registering are here:

http://summit.digitalmegaphone.com/category/agenda


REGISTER FOR THE PARTY AND GET EXTRA POINTS HERE:...

Summer Social Social Media Club Chicago is heading to Crossing Tavern on August 24 for a relaxing evening on the patio that will focus on socializing. 5:30 - 6:30 Check-in and Socializing 6:30 - 7:30 Socializing 7:30 - 8:30 More Socializing   Tickets include food, and one ticket for selected beverage.     MARKETING SPONSOR SocialDevCamp...

TechWeek is a week-long festival that showcases everything new in the technology, web and interactive industries.

From mobile apps and enterprise software to consumer products and greentech innovations, from advertising and product design to robotics and nanotechnology, TechWeek covers it.

- TechWeek Conference & Expo, July 22-25, 2011,...

For the duration of a week, SPARK Chicago will launch three companies from scratch, each receiving over $100,000 of free services! After six days of intense incubation, SPARK Chicago will have helped to create, build, and launch these three startups.

How? Through an application process, the contest will be narrowed down to sixty entrepreneurs who...

OPENING NIGHT IS SOLD OUT - TICKETS REMAIN FOR OTHER DATES, for a limited time, but hurry, hurry...just like This Train it will sell out!

Get your tickets now!
Call Steppenwolf at 312-335-1650 or visit http://www.steppenwolf.org

From America’s border-towns to Istanbul’s Taksim Square, Station’s Lost is the story of two friends, Tony...

The Chicago Urban Art Society presents the work of communication artist Nick Adam. This walk by exhibition takes place in one of Chicago's most endangered buildings The Century Building a neo-gothic tower at the corner of State and Adams streets.

Our Life – This piece is a celebration, for all that we do and all that we are.

This...

We’re baaaaack! That’s right, Chicago’s first and only live design talk show has returned. We still call it: The Show ‘n Tell Show.

The Show has been spinning our wheels for a while, moonlighting at The Printers Ball, and hitting the road for a show in Champaign, IL. But now we’re back in our rightful home, the gorgeous Lincoln Hall. And...

Come commemorate our 25th years of life by joining in on one of our favorite summer past times: ripping apart dozens of crabs limb by limb and feasting on their juicy insides! Yes, we're having a bushel of crabs flown in from Maryland (I'm not kidding) and we need mouths to share them with! If that's not your thing, we'll have...

Comedian Jessica Halem (nominated: Best Female Comic, Chicago Comedy Awards) returns to Chicago to do what she does best – mix personal narrative with humor and politics and push some boundaries while she's at it. With her new one-woman show, “Bad Feminist,” Jessica will top off Center on Halsted’s H.E.R. Day events with a hilarious...

It's because no one else, like El Chorizo, wants to organize it. So here it is, folks. Let's meet up and Tweet up!

Noisivelvet and Altgeld-Sawyer Community Garden Present:
Art Through Gardening Block Party at the corner of Altgeld and Sawyer - June 5th

Noisivelvet and the Altgeld-Sawyer Corner Garden are excited to announce Art Through Gardening Block Party on Sunday, June 5th, 2011 10am – 2pm. Art Through Gardening will serve to promote access to...

I am so excited to announce the official launch of my first book: VISITORS.

Please join me on 2nd Friday's May, 13th to pick up a book. If you pre-ordered a book, this is your night to come get it and I will also be selling the remaining copies. They are $30.

This is a one time press of 319 books to commemorate all 319 VISITORS. Once...

Come out and help me get old! We're throwing down at my favorite beer bar with some of my favorite folks!

Please your ears with sets by:

Ronnie & The Puzzle!(8pm)
The Low Mids!(9pm)
and
The Lowdown Brass Band!(10pm)

Drink beers from around the world!

Dance with me!

There will be a suggested donation at the door because we'd like...

Firecat Projects presents new work by Joe Amrhein - A Fallibility of Perception with FREE BEER by Three Floyds. Join us!

2124 N. Damen, Chicago, IL

Tell your pals, we'll share our beer (and the art, we are generous like that).

The annual queer spectacle of mighty proportions—an electric mash-up of drag, burlesque, spoken word, song and dance celebrating the fierce spirit of the queer community.
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6pm: “Wonder (Us)” A rousing performance keynote by Daniel Alexander Jones, award-winning performer & director extraordinaire hailing from NYC

7pm: Super Power...

Join Mindful Metropolis and Green Parents Network for this special all day Earth Month event to celebrate spring, sustainable living & wellness! The Green Metropolis Fair is a free event for Conscious and Curious Individuals and Families!

• Free entry; non-perishable food donation requested. All are welcome.

• Activities for both kids and...

Wolfgang Amadeus like you have never heard him before! Join a new generation of musicians as they blend chamber music, opera and electronic fusion in one hot celebration of Mozart.

NMO conductor Francesco Milioto will lead the NMO chamber ensemble from the piano in accompaniment to his favorite Mozart arias. Arias will be sung by the awesomely...