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Springfield: Sangamon River Zen Center
Member of the Ordinary Mind School of Zen, Harada-Yasutani lineage. Offers weekly zazen practice.
Evanston: Zen Buddhist Temple of Chicago
Offer Zen meditation (zazen) services in the Soto Zen tradition three times weekly.
Evanston: Chicago Zen Center
Offers daily zazen and periodic sesshins. Harada-Yasutani lineage.
Chicago: Ten Directions Zen Community of Chicagoland
http://www.tendirectionszen.org/
A collection of Zen groups in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana area, affiliated with the Kwan Um School of Zen. Offers zazen practice and frequent retreats. Sitting groups in Chicago, Lincoln Park, Naperville, Woodstock, Hobart, Westville Correction Center, and Indiana State Prison.
Champaign: Prairie Zen Center
Offers weekly sittings, periodic workshops, six sesshins per year, and a resident teacher. Practices in the lineage established by Charlotte Joko Beck, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, in the Harada Yasutani lineage.
Bartlett: Awakening Heart Sangha
http://www.awakeningheartsangha.org/
Offers practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Barringtion: Great Plains Zen Center, Subtle Mind Temple, Myoshinji
http://www.greatplainszen.org/
Member of the White Plum Asangha, in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. Offers weekly zazen and periodic retreats. Myoyu Andersen Sensei, spiritual director.