Long-time club members Craig and Beth have been off traveling the country for the past few years, and are back in the Chicagoland area for a short visit.Come on out to hang out for a bit with MINI friends and have some eats at Shirl’s Drive-in on a Tuesday evening

WRAPUP: A fun casual evening hanging out and visiting with MINI friends

Photos by: Steve

The Windy City BMW club has invited the Chicago MINI Motoring Club to share in their Car Show held at Autobahn race track.

This is in conjunction with their Performance Driving Event held on the same day.

Come on out and show off your MINI!!

WRAPUP: It was a cold wet day, so there were only a handful of MINIs that braved the weather. Still a fun morning hanging out with MINI friends, watching the on-track action and we were even allowed a few lunchtime touring laps of the wet/slippery track.

Photos by: Steve |

The Chicago MINI Motoring Club will finally be able to formally stop at the Launching Pad, home of the Gemini Giant to sample their eats!!

WRAPUP: We had close to 30 MINIs participating from as far away as Rockford and Milwaukee area. The drive was a bit challenging due to construction on one of the bridges forces a re-route of directions.
The Launching Pad was not yet officially open but they did open their doors and parking lot to the Chicago MINI Motoring Club for a “soft” pre-open test run day. There was a large selection of menu items and the food was very tasty. We had a great time hanging around both inside and in the parking area checking out all the cool MINIs and getting the photo-ops under the Gemini Giant as well as other local area murals. Huge thanks to Holly and Tully from the Launching Pad and to Austin Coop from 2laneamerica.com for joining in and donating some Route 66 swag to our group!!

Photos by: Steve |