401 East Main Street, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Sunday Night Big Book
22.4 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
120 Ela Street, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Saturday Morning Men
22.5 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
36 Highland Avenue, Elgin, Illinois 60124
Womens New Beginnings
22.6 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1325 North Highland Avenue, Aurora, Illinois 60506
Sunday Morning Open
22.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
13550 Maple Road, Mokena, Illinois 60448
Mokena Fellowship Center
22.8 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
36W925 Red Gate Road, St. Charles, Illinois 60175
Monday Pm Newcomers Group
23 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
420 West County Line Road, Barrington, Illinois 60010
Barr Pals
23 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1217 Wolf’s Crossing Road, Oswego, Illinois 60543
Wheatland Salem Thurs AA
23.3 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
509 McClure Avenue, Elgin, Illinois 60123
Beginners Group
23.4 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1365 South Ridge Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Friday in the Park
23.4 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
1155 Illinois 22, Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047
Lake Zurich 12 and 12
23.6 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
24035 Riverwalk Court, Plainfield, Illinois 60544
Breaking Chains
23.7 miles away from Hillside, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Hillside, Illinois as the funding is accepted on a donation from its members.
AA is one of most commonly known programs in the United States and around the world that helps countless men and women achieve sobriety in the pursuit of lifelong recovery. They are usually small groups of recovering alcoholics who share their recovery journey and are there to help new members get sober.
Alcohol Addiction is a disease of the mind, body, and soul. AA has curated meetings to help with each individual piece of your sobriety. If you are in search of a meeting on the first three steps, you should choose a beginner meeting. If you are looking to get more in touch with your spiritual side, attending a meditation meeting would be an ideal choice. If you are in search of stories of inspiration for overcoming alcoholism, a speaker meeting is a good starting point. If you are through your steps and are now working on the traditions of AA, a tradition meetings will help. If you want to attend a single gender group, you can go to a men’s or women's meeting where you won't find anyone of the opposite gender there. The fact of the matter is there is a meeting for everyone. Try different meetings out until you find one that fits your needs.
In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should remain open minded. Everyone had preconceived notions of what these meetings were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and humbly ask for help. Regardless of the meeting, there will be the same message of recovering from hopelessness. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another person suffering from alcoholism which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.