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Dance With Us 2025 Lesson Series Registration

Dance With Us 2025 Lesson Series Registration

LESSONS BEGIN SEPTEMBER 11, 2025


$200 Registration fee includes: weekly lessons most Thursday nights from September to January, club membership and admission to 3 Chi-Town social dances!

Graduates can dance at Chi-Town Squares and other area clubs, as well as across the country.

Social Square Dancing (SSD) is fun, fast paced, and easy to learn.

Casual attire, a wide variety of music genres, and there’s no partner needed!

Taught by internationally acclaimed square dance caller Sandie Bryant!

Registration and fee payment is available online (below) or in person at Chi-Town Squares events. Note the online registration submission will take registrants to PayPal, but registrants have the option of paying then, or separately via PayPal, Zelle, by mail (see paper registration for address) or in person anytime up to September 11, 2025.

Location:

Ebenezer Lutheran Social Hall

1650 W. Foster Ave., Chicago

Questions: info.chitownsquares@gmail.com

Chi-Town Squares at the Chicago Pride Parade!

Thank you to everyone who came out in the hot, humid weather and made Chi-Town Squares’ participation in this year’s Pride Parade - Sunday June 29, 2025 - a big success!

Stay tuned for pics and videos, and take care!

Parade media from 2005, 2022, 2023 and 2024!

Here is a snippet with us from ABC 7's live stream of the entire (2023 - it’s our best video) parade, which is available here.

CLUB SHIRTS

The Chi-Town Squares club uniform has been updated to a cotton polo shirt, in one of the six colors of the Chi-Town Squares logo pictured below, worn with black jeans/pants! Shirt orders are taken at all regular Chi-Town Squares dances, and we generally send in the orders to the shirt company once each season of the year!

New Payment Option: Zelle!

For those who prefer, here you can renew membership, pay the registration fee for Crossfire or other items, or even make a donation to keep the club kickin’ for another year, via Zelle!

If you have a Zelle account/app simply scan the QR code above to connect with Chi-Town Squares Zelle account at treasurer.chitownsquares@gmail.com and send us money! Be sure to put in the memo details of what you are paying for (Crossfire, merchandise, membership renewal, etc.)

Dance WIth Us This Summer!

You are cordially invited to attend our “No Experience Needed” dance parties this summer! Have fun dancing and meeting new people - and, if we spark your interest, register for square dance lessons this fall!

Chi-Town Squares presents

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SAVE THESE DATES!

Thursday Nights 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

July 24, August 21, and September 4, 2025

Everyone is Welcome! No Partner Needed!

Chi-Town Squares invites you to 3 FREE
“no experience necessary” Dance Parties to give you a Taste of Square Dancing! No registration necessary, but here are Facebook event links for those who’d like to RSVP, “like” and/or share!

Crossfire 2025 Registration Open!

Chi-Town Squares presents:

The Great Chicago Crossfire 2025

Four sessions of Dancing: Friday Night, Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening and Sunday ($20 per session admission if you are not registering for the entire weekend)

FEE SCHEDULE: $90 by July 15, 2025

$100 by September 6, 2025

$115 thereafter and at-the-door

$40 Non-dancer rate

SPECIAL $80 rate for first-time Cross fire attendees

Registration and Payment Instructions

Registration

Paper registrations may be mailed or submitted at Chi-Town Squares events.

Alternatively, registrations may be submitted online; the button below goes to an online registration form after which registrants are currently directed to a payment-by-PayPal form which they can either use to pay, or skip and pay later BY another METHOD.

Payment

Registrants can pay at time of online registration above by PayPal, in person at events,or below at any time with Zelle (refer to “Fee Schedule” above for payment amounts) or PayPal.

Chi-Town Squares dances in Andersonville at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church Community Center, 1650 W. Foster, Chicago, IL 60640, one block west of Ashland Avenue

Chi-Town Squares is Chicago's LGBTQ+ Modern Square Dance Club

Fly-Ins!

Here we are passing along to those interested the current omnibus PDF from Gordon Macaw from the All Join Hands Foundation. These contain flyers for fly-ins, conventions and other national and international square dance organization content. Because we live in a complicated world, please contact the specific poster/organization for each event/posting, for the most up-to-information about registrations, re-schedulings and cancellations:

May 2025

Membership Renewal and Donations

CHI-TOWN SQUARES

Renew Your Membership

You can renew your membership online by using the PayPal form below. If you wish to pay by check, you can download the Membership Renewal Form and send your check and the form to the address indicated at the bottom of the form.

Your membership runs from June 1 to May 31 each year. 

Membership Type
Your Name
Phone Number & Email

Donate to Chi-Town Squares!

You can use the buttons below to make online donations to Chi-Town Squares.  Chi-Town Squares is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, recognized as such by the IRS, and your donations are tax-deductible.

Chi-Town Squares General Fund

Provides for general operating expenses.

Lin Jarvis Caller Fund

Provides club callers with scholarships to Caller School.

The Larry Burke Scholarship Fund

Provides help with dues & value cards for Chi-Town members who are struggling with finances.