Welcome!

Welcome to Minis In Northern Illinois.

ALL forms of the Mini are welcome. You don't even have to own a Mini to join. Just have the desire to have fun and make new friends.

Membership:
Dues are $20.00 a year starting January 1st.
Download a membership application here.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events
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February 28, 2010: Fourteenth Annual All British Swap Meet and Auto Jumble. For details see CMGC Website
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March 7th, 2010: Annual Winter Picnic - Maggiano's Little Italy in Schaumburg. Please contact for more information. RSVP's due by March 3rd
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2010 Elections. Anyone interested in running for office for 2010 should contact Ferb or Andy. If no one is interested in running, existing officers may be re-elected. Consider yourself warned!
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Reminder: 2010 Dues (still only $20.00)
Download a membership application here.
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Friday, January 22, 2010

Annual Winter Picnic - March 7th

The Annual Winter Picnic has been scheduled for March 7th starting at 1pm at Maggiano's in Schaumburg.

Please contact for more information.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events
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NEW! January 31, 2010: Annual indoor karting event hosted by Chicago Mini Motoring Club. For details, go see CMMC Website
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NEW! February 19 - 21, 2010: Annual Spring Thing in Cocoa Beach Florida. For details and registration, see FLAME Website
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February 28, 2010: Fourteenth Annual All British Swap Meet and Auto Jumble. For details see CMGC Website
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2010 Elections. Anyone interested in running for office for 2010 should contact Ferb or Andy. If no one is interested in running, existing officers may be re-elected. Consider yourself warned!
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Winter Picnic: The club is soliciting recommendations for the location of the 2010 Winter Picnic. Please send suggestions to Andy or Ferb or Jeanne or Kevin or the Webmasters.
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Reminder: 2010 Dues (still only $20.00)
Download a membership application here.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

January Meeting

The January meeting will be held in Aurora @ Gary and Cathy's. They will be having Sloppy Joe's for everyone. Bring what you would like to drink and if you would like to bring any snacks or other food you are welcome to do so. Meeting will be @ 2:00pm on January 9th. Contact cathy@ cathylynn127@gmail.com or Gary @ garman64@gmail.com for directions.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Upcoming Events - December 2009

Upcoming Events:
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NEW! December 5, 2009: Monthly club meeting that was postponed from November. This meeting will begin semi-promptly at 3:56pm (time requested by Andy) at Portillo’s on Butterfield Road, ½ mile East of I-355 in Downers Grove. Agenda includes Winter Picnic, Elections, British Car Swap and Spring Fling, plus whatever serious or extraneous club business you want to bring up. If it snows, we will hold the meeting inside this year.

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NEW! December 12, 2009: The Christmas Light Tour. A cool Toys For Tots Rallye. See Wheels Rallye Team Website for more information: Link (Scroll down a bit)

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2010 Elections. Anyone interested in running for office for 2010 should contact Ferb or Andy. If no one is interested in running, existing officers may be re-elected. Consider yourself warned!

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Winter Picnic: The club is soliciting recommendations for the location of the 2010 Winter Picnic. Please send suggestions to Andy or Ferb or Jeanne or Kevin, or come to the December meeting with your ideas, suggestions, offers, thoughts, plans, schemes, notions, concepts, strategies, opinions, deals, recommendations, submissions, theories, designs, proposals, assumptions or inspirations.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Cancelled - 3rd Annual M.I.N.I. Thanksgiving Dinner

CANCELLED Announcing the 3rd Annual M.I.N.I. Thanksgiving Dinner CANCELLED:

Unfortunately we have to cancel this year's M.I.N.I. Thanksgiving Dinner.
Stay tuned for a possible event in December.

Minis In Northern Illinois will be hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner, Saturday, November 22, 2009 in Burr Ridge. The club will be providing the turkey, stuffing & gravy and would club members are asked to bring the "go with's". The time is tentatively scheduled for 3 PM for Dinner. Suggestions for what to bring are: pies (Pumpkin, apple or what ever??), vegetable casserole, rolls & butter, potato dish, Jello mold, relish tray & dip and don't forget cranberry sauce. This will be a BYOB ( bring your own bottle ).

Please contact us at minisinnorthernil@gmail.com or secretary@minisinil.com for directions and more information.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Apple Picking - October 10th

We are planning our 3rd Annual Apple Picking Trip to Honey Hill Orchards for October 10th, 2009.

We will be meeting at 930 am at Cathy & Gary's house in Aurora, IL and then departing at 10am to the orchard in Waterman, IL about 20 miles south of Dekalb.

The orchard has apples that you can pick yourself from the trees as well as pre-picked apples for sale. They also have donuts and other baked goods for sale.
In addition to apples, the orchard also has raspberry and pumpkins for picking as well.

We will be having dinner at a restaurant to be determined after the orchard.

11747 Waterman Road
Waterman, IL 60556

Please let us know if you are coming.