Chicago
About This Chapter
Join a fun community of liberty-minded young professionals in the Windy City!
AFF-Chicago is a professional development network for individuals who believe in the power of personal liberty, entrepreneurship, and innovation–channeled through free markets–to promote positive social change.
AFF-Chicago events bring the “doers” of Chicago together to network, learn from each other, discuss key issues, and ultimately collaborate to improve themselves and the city as a whole. AFF-Chicago hosts variety of events; previous events have included a happy hour with David Boaz of the CATO Institute and a panel on school choice and education reform in Illinois.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Gun Control and Mass Shootings
Calls for stricter gun control have returned in the wake of the horrific school shootings across the country. Some of the policy proposals are familiar: universal background checks, closing the...
Kevin Williamson on the Opioid Crisis
"In a country of 319 million, there were 259 million opiate-painkiller prescriptions written [in 2015]." Over the past few years, Kevin Williamson has traversed America covering the emerging opioid crisis...
Is Single Payer Health Care Inevitable?
American health care is in a crisis. The Affordable Care Act is unpopular, premiums are spiking, insurers are leaving the ObamaCare exchanges, and deductibles are unaffordable. Republican proposals to...
Chapter Leader
Eric Kohn
Eric Kohn is marketing manager at the Illinois Policy Institute. In that role, he works to facilitate conversation, increase engagement, and drive advocacy within the Institute’s digital community. Prior to joining the Institute, Eric was founder and CEO of Curious...more