Newbies and hardcore Browncoats welcome! We are fans of the short lived Firefly TV show and of the Firefly movie called Serenity, and well, pretty much everything Joss-verse! We host many small shindigs & several large events each year, including our annual Browncoat party at Capricon each February, and the annual Can't Stop the Serenity screening at the Portage Theater each summer. The screening is the Browncoats' birthday present to Joss Whedon to raise money & awareness for his favorite …

The Microsoft Store at Oakbrook Center is calling all gamers to join in the action! We have events for all kinds of gamers... whether you are a hardcore Xbox or PC gamer or are just looking to get up and get active with Kinect. Look no further than you local Microsoft Store!

This group is for learning, teaching and sharing ideas about disaster preparedness, be it natural or man made. With an extremely shaky economy, depletion of our natural resources and a myriad of other exposures that may interfere with our current way of life, skills such as food & water storage, sanitation, security, self defense, shelter, etc. will have tremendous value. To this end, we hold informational seminars, coordinate group buys, a book club, attend and sponsor workshops. The group is t …