| About Illinois Yearly Meeting |
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IYM is a spiritual community of Quakers, also known as Friends. Though the individuals in this community attend some 26 affiliated local Meetings across four states, each summer the Meeting gathers in a retreat near McNabb, Illinois to worship together and to conduct the business of the community. This business includes issues related to lay ministry, religious education, the practice of faith, volunteer service, public witness, publications, Meetinghouse site improvement, and finances. The IYM Meetinghouse is also the worship site for Clear Creek Friends, as well as for workshops, retreats and committee meetings. IYM comprises Blue River Quarterly Meeting (click here for a history) and Metropolitan Chicago General Meeting of Friends. We would be delighted to provide additional information and help! Please contact us at info@ilym.org. You are also welcome to join our email announcements list — just send us a message and ask that your name be added. Finally, our web site went online in 2002 and is a work in progress. Visit often to see new features. |
| Finding the IYM Meetinghouse |
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Our Meetinghouse is located in the peaceful, fertile midst of corn and soybean fields
near McNabb, which is 110 miles southwest of Chicago,
220 miles north-northeast of Saint Louis MO, 60 miles north of Bloomington-Normal,
and 90 miles south of Rockford. The 911 address assignment is 14365 N. 350 Ave.,
McNabb, IL, 61335 (phone 815-882-2214) -- but this may not work in the various mapping web sites,
and for postal mail please contact info@ilym.org for appropriate addresses. Click here for a Mapquest view centered on McNabb. Click here for a Google Maps view including a satellite image (to see the Meetinghouse and grounds!). The Meetinghouse lane is signposted (see below) on Rt. 89, about one mile south of McNabb and two miles north of Magnolia. Turn east on the lane and go ½ mile; parking is on the north side and the large white Meetinghouse is on the south side of the lane. |
| History of Illinois Yearly Meeting |
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In 1834 Friends began to worship in the Clear Creek area at the site of what is now the Friends
Cemetery (where Benjamin Lundy is buried). Indeed, the Clear Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends
is the oldest continuous
monthly meeting in Illinois Yearly Meeting. The current Meetinghouse was built about two miles
east of the cemetery in 1875, when
Illinois Yearly Meeting was formed. [Stay tuned for more ...]
For more information about the Religious Society of Friends, please consult this link for an excellent collection of resources from the Google search engine. |
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