Makers in Chicago

A creators workplace in an open studio style environment offering a fully equipped workshop along with personal studio spaces.

A membership library to borrow all kinds of tools, the Chicago Tool Library is a community nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide equitable access to tools, equipment, and information to allow all Chicagoans to learn, share, and create.

Whether writing code, carving wood, building machines, or solving a problem members here are all about creating. The collaborative energy and creative atmosphere foster the makers, inventors, hackers, and learners to continue, in whatever medium. Sawdust mixes with the digital in this space and beautiful things result.

The Fab Lab, located at the Polsky Exchange, offers entrepreneurs opportunities to transform their ideas into physical objects to share, test and perfect.

The original Chicago hackerspace, take your making to the next level. Two levels of membership. Some events open to the public, including orientations.

The South Side Hackerspace is a collection of nerds, makers, tinkerers, doers, hackers, artists, students, teachers, and other creatives. We meet in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, where we teach, learn, make, and socialize in our educational and collaborative community space.

Workshop 88 is a hackerspace located in Chicago’s western suburbs. Focused on science, technology, mechanics, culture and the digital arts, offering a space where people with diverse backgrounds can socialize, collaborate, learn and make.