As with many environmental organizations, XR Chicago lost a lot of the awesome 2019 climate action momentum during the pandemic. Along with many other activist movements, we have been working hard to rebuild. But the world has changed dramatically in the last few years, with multiple other crises—war, genocide, deportations, loss of civil and human rights, higher costs for everything, including health care, out-of-control Big Tech—making it harder to focus on a crisis that sometimes seems distant or abstract.
XR Chicago, along with the rest of Extinction Rebellion, is strategiszing about most effective ways to meet this complex moment, for example by connecting the dots between climate change and the multitude of other crises and by working in coalition with other social/environmental justice groups.
One of our first steps is to rebuild this website to emphasize these connections, invite visitors to make their own connections, and make it easy to find information about upcoming actions, meetings, trainings, and other events.

We will email everyone on our mailing list when the website reopens. If you are not yet on our mailing list, you can sign up here: [link]. If you would like to join XR Chicago and help us get restarted, our meetings are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. CT. Email us at contact@xrchicago.org for the link or to set up a time for a one-on-one meeting if you can’t make Wednesday nights.