The MINI Car Club of Indianpolis and Dreyer & Reinbold MINI have extended an invitation for us to attend their Spring Fling Road Rally on May 16th.

Registration starts at 1:00, drivers meeting at 1:45, and the first car out will be at 2:00. It is a gimmick rally and the gimmick will be a short list of pictures that you will match up along the way, very simple. There will be prizes and awards at the end. For more info go to www.minicci.com

Anyone who is interested in attending, feel free to post here, and perhaps a caravan can be arranged

Announcing our 2nd annual Baseball Rally.

This year we have worked out a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers for tickets and
goodies as a package, at a reduced cost for our members and guests. Here's the deal… Last year tickets cost $12.00 each for the seats we had. This year we were able to purchase the same level seats, near home plate on the third base side. We have worked a package deal with the Brewers that we hope
you will like. Tickets this year are $9.00 and include a Soda and HotDog, with each ticket. This is a great deal, but we only have 150 seats for
don't wait too long to save the date.

WHO

All Chicago MINI Club members and their families, or guests. All Milwaukee
and Madison MINI Club members and their families, or guests.
All 4 MINI dealers in Chicago and Milwaukee.

WHAT

A MINI drive, huge (MINI) tailgate party, and Brewers vs Marlins baseball
game.

WHERE

Gathering at Starbucks at the Village Square in Northbrook (847.509.1937 ) and driving to International MINI in Milwaukee. We will meet up with the Wisconsin MINI's there and motor into Miller Park. We will have a huge (MINI) tailgate party. Then into the stadium to see
the Brewers vs the Florida Marlins.

WHEN

Sunday, August 15th. We'll be meeting at Starbuck (directions here) around 7:30 am and leaving no later than 8:00 am! Game time 1pm. Party time, way before that.

HOW

Need to get some tickets? Email ron@chicagominiclub.com to purchase your
game tickets soon.

In the early days of the Chicago MINI Motoring Club (way back last year) we often sent out email notifications of upcoming club events.

We have been moving towards less notification via email, and instead relying on posting information here on our site. This is due to a number of reasons including worries about spam, email viruses, and the difficulty of maintaining an ever growing list of addresses.

There are many among us who would still prefer to be notified of events via email, and would rather not have to check this site every day for fear of missing a cool event

I would like to offer up a couple of options to make it easier to keep up with events.

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The Chicago MINI Motoring Club is now over 100 members strong!!! I want to thank everyone who has joined, and I hope we are doing a good job keeping everyone happy with the events we have been doing.

We've just received word that we can reserve a block of seats to see the champion Marlins play the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, August 15th. Now we need to know how big a block of seats to reserve! E-mail us immediately at so that we can estimate how many people are interested in coming along. This should be a huge MINI meet, with participation from not only the Chicago club, but Milwaukee and Madison MINI motorers as well!

So talk it over quickly with your family and friends and let us know before this Thursday, 3/25, how many seats you'd like to take for this event, and e-mail us at ron@chicagominiclub.com ASAP!

Thanks to Ron and everyone else who helped put this event together. Also thanks to everyone for coming out – what a great turnout! As is a budding spring drive tradition we had some nice snow showers and an unseasonably cold day. But despite this it seems as if everyone had a great time and learned a little bit about Chicago, MINIs, and poker!

If anyone has any photos they'd like to share either post the ULRs in the comments section or send them in via email (our email is in the lower right of this page) and will try to put together a photo-page later in the week.