1609 Pfingsten Road, Glenview, Illinois 60025
Big Book Glenview
40.5 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
800 East Palatine Road, Palatine, Illinois 60074
Sober Steps Group
40.6 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
123 North Plum Grove Road, Palatine, Illinois 60067
Young Peoples Big Book Group
40.6 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
1821 Maplewood Lane, Glenview, Illinois 60025
Sleepy Hollow Step 7am
40.8 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
417 West Main Street, West Dundee, Illinois 60118
Saturday Morning 12 & 12 (164501)
40.9 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
516 Washington Street, West Dundee, Illinois 60118
Young Peoples Beginner Meeting
41 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
1141 East Anderson Drive, Palatine, Illinois 60074
Helping Hands Group
41.1 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
1647 Ravine Lane, Carpentersville, Illinois 60110
Tuesday Night Group (123511)
41.5 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
2939 Dekalb Street, Lake Station, Indiana 46405
Groupo Latinos en AA
41.8 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
2800 Fayette Street, Gary, Indiana 46405
Heartland Group
41.9 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
1100 Laramie Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois 60091
Sunday Morning Step
42 miles away from Joliet, Illinois
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Joliet, 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.