For Chicago specifically, there are two solutions I can offer: 1. Chicago Engineering Tech Communities and Organizations - https://github.com/driscoll42/chicag

For Chicago specifically, there are two solutions I can offer: 1. Chicago Engineering Tech Communities and Organizations - https://github.com/driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-communities https://github.com/driscoll42/chicago-engineering-and-tech-c... 2. Chicago Tech Community Events - https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/ https://chitechcommunityevents.softr.app/ The first is a list of all the tech/engineering orgs in Chicago I maintain. Many are still on meetup, but not all. Unfortunately there's not one calendar to find everything. The second is an attempt to make a calendar of Chicago tech events, but it's not perfect. I don't run it but I highly recommend it. I do recommend joining local community slacks/Discords. There's a good one for slacks here (https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks https://github.com/thisdot/tech-community-slacks), e.g. for Chicago there's the Chicago Tech Slack (https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3mexrp-Ri0DCePyYaXSuEg8qPUCTA https://join.slack.com/t/chicago-tech/shared_invite/zt-1cb3m...), but you'll need to explore around.