Speed Dating in Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park has more single professionals per block than almost anywhere in Chicago, and yet meeting one the old-fashioned way is strangely hard. Chicago First Dates brings speed dating to the neighborhood's own bars along Clark, Halsted, Armitage and Lincoln Avenue, so your next first date is a walk from home instead of a rideshare across the city.
Our Lincoln Park nights draw people from the neighborhood plus Old Town, Lakeview and Bucktown next door: young professionals a few years out of school, DePaul grad students, nurses and residents from the hospital corridor, and plenty of people who moved here for the lake and the parks and want a social life to match.
A neighborhood built for meeting people
Everything about Lincoln Park is walkable — the zoo and the lakefront for a second date, the restaurant rows on Halsted and Armitage for a first one. We pick venues with a reserved area and a sensible volume, close to the Brown Line and the Fullerton and Armitage stops, with street parking on the side streets for anyone driving in.
Upcoming speed dating events in ChicagoHow a Lincoln Park event runs
Arrive, check in with our host, and grab a drink. You'll meet everyone in your age group over a series of five-minute mini-dates, take a break to mingle, and head out with nothing to decide on the spot. Log in the next day, choose who you'd like to see again, and we exchange details for every mutual match. It's the format we run all over Chicago, done in the neighborhood people actually live in.
Nearby
See speed dating on Chicago's North Side for the full neighborhood list, or the locations page for every neighborhood and suburb we serve. Old Town, Lakeview, Wrigleyville and Bucktown are each a short walk or one stop away and have their own pages.