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CLC Supports Senior Programs at the Center on Halsted

Apr 2, 2013

Michael S presents the proceeds from our recent Bar Night at Touché. Barb Vicory from the Center was glad to be on hand to accept the funds on behalf of the Senior Programs. The Senior Programs at the Center help to provide a meal program 3 times a week, workshops, outreach and support to our aging LGBTQ community. The work they do goes to help these seniors have a place to feel comfortable and to socialize in a safe environment. CLC will be presenting a workshop on...

CLC's next Bar Night - March 15th - Supporting Center on Halstead Senior Programs!

Mar 4, 2013

Our next Bar Night is coming next Friday, March 15th at Touche Chicago from 10pm to 1am! We'll be featuring a shot/drink special whipped up by CLC-chef-extraordinaire Daddy T, blacking by slave angie and a 50/50 raffle to support the Senior Programs at Center on Halsted. Hope you'll join us!

Chicago Leather Club partners with Center on Halstead Senior Programs in 2013

Dec 22, 2012

Chicago Leather Club is proud to announce a new partnership with Center on Halstead to benefit the Center’s Senior Programs in 2013. With the wonderful attention that various groups and organizations have brought to the needs of the LGBTQ youth in the Chicago area in 2012, we looked for other groups that may need similar attention and support. One area that doesn't get a lot of publicity is the LGBTQ senior population. To that end, we researched which programs would benefit from...

Annual General Meeting - Dec 15th

Nov 20, 2012

CLC is happy to announce our AGM on Saturday, December 15th from 5pm to 8pm. The Annual General Meeting is when we celebrate our year, present the officers for the next year and reach out to all our members , friends of the club and those interested in learning and meeting CLC to come join us in fellowship and fun! We have had an amazing decade anniversary year! We have a very cool announcement to make about 2013, so I hope you all will be there! The AGM is a potluck dinner, we would...

Bar Night and Meeting at Touché

Oct 29, 2012

Our next bar night is this November 9th, from 10pm to midnight at Touché. We'll be raffling off some items and a couple of CLC Decade Dash TShirts, as well as CLC's very own angie will be bootblacking! Our last business meeting of the year will be in the Club room at Touché at 7pm on the same night prior to our bar night. Anyone interested in attending is welcome. Hope to see you all there!

Celebrating our Ten Year Anniversary!

Sep 4, 2012

Thank you to all our friends from Chicago and from the Midwest for coming to a fantastic decade celebration! If you missed this party, you missed quite a shin-dig! Great fun and lots of great people to share it with. We will have pictures up soon.

The Dash is Almost Here!

Aug 7, 2012

Less than 4 WEEKS LEFT till we celebrate 10 years with our Decade Dash! If you haven't registered, we'd love to see you come join us on Sept 1st. We've got a wonderful day planned full of fun, play, games, drinks, dinner and did we mention play? If you haven't registered now, there's still time - http://www.chicagoleatherclub.org/registration.

Decade Dash Registration Now Open!

Apr 24, 2012

The Decade Dash registration page is now live and can be accessed by clicking the link. You can register and mail your check/money order to us, or for your convenience, you can pay with credit/debit card through Paypal. You do not need to have a Paypal account to pay online. Early Bird Registration ends July 1st! Hope you'll join us in celebrating a Decade of Delinquency!

New Look!

Apr 10, 2012

We hope you like the new look of the Chicago Leather Club website! We've been working hard to get ready for our dash online registration and thought a new coat of paint and some DIY fixer-upper would help give us a great new look. Hope you like the photos on the front page, and if you're stopping by for the first time, welcome! We've seen a lot of new friends from the Leatherati/Chicago Den article - welcome and hope you'll join us soon - we've got a bar night later this month on the...

Decade Dash News!

Mar 25, 2012

Chicago Leather Club is proud to announce the return of the "Back To School" Dash for our 10th anniversary celebration on Saturday, September 1st 2012! Come join us in celebrating ten years of service and brother/sisterhood with the Chicago leather/BDSM/kink community. We're really excited about the dash and planning is well under way. We will have an online registration form soon, but in the meantime, please check out our flier (click on the image below) and if you'd like to...

Bar Night at Touché

Mar 19, 2012

CLC's next bar night is Friday, April 27th at Touché from 10pm to 1am. Sure, it's CLAW weekend... but someone's gotta hold down the home front, right? If you're a CLAW widow too, come join CLC at Touché for a night of fun! We'll be hosting a fund raiser, CLC's very own bootblack angie will be available for all your leather gear and I'm sure there will be drink or two to be had. Hope we'll see you there!

CLC jumps into 2012!

Jan 26, 2012

Chicago Leather Club has a lot going on in 2012! With our decade dash celebration scheduled for September 1st, thats now less than 9 months and time is ticking! We're all busy planning lots of fun and excitement, and of course, the cocktail parties! More information will be coming in February about registration and scheduling. We're also very excited to have our calendar updated through 2012 to the Dash. We're still in planning for an educational event or a fundraiser, bar night or two. You...

Reminder - Annual General Meeting on Dec 4th!

Nov 22, 2011

It's the holidays and that means it's time for CLC's Annual General Meeting! This year, we're meeting on Dec 4th (Sunday) from 3pm onwards and we'll be having it at a private home. Come meet the 2012 officers, hear about our great 2011 and enjoy some holiday cheer and FOOD! We're also excited that we'll be announcing something special for our decade anniversary in 2012! For more information, contact info@chicagoleatherclub.org for RSVP and location information. Hope to see all of our members...

CLC Presents Colors to LRA

Oct 2, 2011

Last night at the LRA semi-annual Member's Meeting, Chicago Leather Club presented their colors to the LRA. We are grateful for the support that the LRA has given us over the years, as well as their continued educational and outreach programs to the greater Chicago leather/levi/kink community. Establishing these bonds within our community are important, as CLC and LRA share similar missions and goals. We are very proud to identify the LRA as a place we support and feel a...

Tribe Remembrance Day Thank You!

Oct 1, 2011

Chicago Leather Club and friends helped organize Tribe Remembrance Day in Chicago on Sept 23d. We had a remembrance book, candles and people who were there to talk to others and help them to feel welcome. CLC is grateful that a number of people came out to be with us and share their thoughts and memories and leave messages in the Remembrance Book. We're going to leave the Remembrance Book at the Leather Archives & Museum and do this again next year. In 2012, the first day of...

CLC organizes Chicago TRIBE Remembrance Day (Sept 23rd)

Jul 24, 2011

As part of a group of clubs and bars nationwide, the Chicago Leather Club is organizing the Chicago participation in the TRIBE DAY, a Day of Leather Remembrance and Celebration on Friday, September 23rd, the first day of autumn in the United States. Autumn is a season of change and death, as well as a celebration of Life and nature. We all have lost friends and family within our Leather Community, and as a community. As a community, we can come together to ensure those lost are memorialized...

July Business Meeting / Dinner and bar crawl night

Jun 27, 2011

The next business meeting will be at Saturday, July 9th, from 4 to 6pm, which is open to all members - associates, full, honorary and friends of the club. (Contact Master Michael or angie for location details.) After that, we'll be going to dinner and having another fun night out with a visit to the local drinking holes. All are invited! We had a blast last time and a bartender got some nice welts from belts, so who knows what might happen!

CLC July Roadtrip!

Jun 19, 2011

CLC is planning a roadtrip in July! We'll be heading up to Minneapolis on July 15th/16th/17th to hang out and party with the Knights of Leather. All members, associates and FoCs are invited - let's make the CLC/Knights reunion a great one! Contact us for details.

2010 AGM Recap

Dec 13, 2010

Yesterday, CLC held its 8th Annual General Meeting at the LRA. We had a few folks brave the cold wintry weather to come join in a potluck dinner, lots of conversation and laughs. Thank you to all who came and shared, it was so much fun! CLC would also like to thank the LRA and it's Board for graciously allowing us to host our AGM. CLC had a great year in 2010 - we had members attend three runs: Spring MACC - Conductors, Nashville TN, Fall MACC - Corn Haulers, Des Moines IA and the...

CLC Annual General Meeting and potluck dinner

Dec 7, 2010

CLC will be holding the Annual General Meeting at the LRA on December 12th from 4pm to 6pm. We'll be having a potluck dinner and presenting the new officers at this meeting, as well as talking about plans for 2011, and reviewing 2010's accomplishments. To that end, we'd like to get a tentative headcount on who will be joining us, as well as any dietary concerns and what you would be willing to bring to the potluck? Please feel free to bring significant others, friends and interested folks...

Nov 12th business meeting/pub crawl

Oct 30, 2010

Our next business meeting will be November 13th from 6pm to 7pm at Jackhammers (Clark/Devon). All members are encouraged to attend, associates and full alike. We'll be discussing the Annual meeting in December as well as plans for 2011. After that, we'll be doing a dinner/pub crawl from 7pm to whenever! Come hang out and have a fun evening checking out the late autumn nightlife! We'll be looking for all the fun places to hang out, some come with recommendations! Michael S is collecting toys...

CLC Bar Night w/Rodeo Riders this Friday 9/24

Sep 20, 2010

CLC is sharing a bar night with the Rodeo Riders this Friday at Touche. This will be one of the last bar nights that the Rodeo Riders will have as they are hanging it up this year. It would be really great to see people come out and share some fellowship and CLC-leather-spirit with our brothers from the Rodeo Riders. Here's the details: Chicago Leather Club is having a bar night with Rodeo Riders Chicago on Friday September 24, 2010, around 10 p.m. or so. The hosting bar is Touche,...

CLC gets busy in 2010

Apr 11, 2010

We're gearing up for a lot of things going on this year! April 23rd, CLC will be presenting "What are Back Patch clubs" at the LRA's "What is Leather" monthly education class at 9.30pm. Michael has been doing some research on the history of back patch clubs and DaddyT will be talking about her experiences as well. This is a great time to come out and represent! All CLC members/guests can be guested to stay at the LRA following the presentation. April 24th will be a...

CLC attends Conductors Track 28

Mar 22, 2010

We'd like to thank our brothers from the Conductors for hosting a wonderful run! It was a great event, filled with meeting old friends and making new friends with all who attended. We're counting days till September when we'll be heading to Iowa for the Corn Haulers' 34th anniversary run and Fall MACC meeting. Also, special congrats to our run virgins who "cleaned up" the games awards! Here are some pictures from the event Daddy T, slave angie, Master MichaelS angie, Michael...

CLC member Master Rick honored!

Feb 8, 2010

Congratulations to Master Rick for being honored with the Leatherman's Heart Award presented at South West Leather Conference in Phoenix, AZ the weekend of January 22-24, 2010. Your brothers and sisters in leather are very proud of you!

CLC hosts Chicago Leather Timeline

Jan 24, 2010

Chicago Leather Club is pleased to announce a new addition to the CLC website - the Chicago Leather History Timeline. "The purpose of this timeline (as a subset of the Leather History Timeline found at the Leather Archives & Museum) was to focus on the history of leather within Chicago, and research/include as many sub-communities to be found within. As an ongoing service to the Chicago community, CLC will host the Chicago Leather timeline and update it periodically."...

2009 Annual General Meeting - We Survived 2009!

Dec 7, 2009

2009 has been a tough year! Come join us Sunday, January 10th from 3pm to 7pm for a potluck dinner as Chicago Leather Club celebrates another full year and all of us making it through these really tough times. We will be presenting our two newest full members as well as the new slate of officers serving CLC in 2010. We'll also be having a "Hard Luck" (white elephant or dollar store) gift exchange. The dinner will be held at the LRA - 6525 North Clark Street, in the Rogers Park...

CLC gives to Toys for Tots 2009

Nov 26, 2009

In November 2009, Chicago Leather Club donated $200 to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation [http://www.toysfortots.org]. In past years, CLC members have participated in the Chicagoland Toys for Tots Motorcycle Parade. This year, we continue the tradition of giving back by giving directly to the Foundation to provide toys to help the Marines stand behind their "Every Child Deserves a Little Christmas" pledge. For more information about the Chicago chapter of Toys for Tots, visit...

Welcome to our new website!

Sep 26, 2009

CLC is still alive and kicking! We've updated our website and we're still going strong. We hope you like the new look. We've got a new calendar to the left where you can quickly find our next meeting, event or fundraiser!

Join us at the Fall MACC

Sep 25, 2009

The next Mid-America Council of Clubs (MACC) meeting will be held in Akron OH at the Iron Eagles & the Rangers run - Leather Bowl 2009. The run goes from Fri. Oct 16th through Sun. Oct 18th. Join us as we travel to Ohio for a great time!