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Chicago Friends

This subreddit is a community of Chicagoland residents looking to meet up to hang out or do events together. All are welcome, new and old residents of Chicago! ChicagoFriends organizes events and details on discord - see https://chicagofriends.org or the weekly event post for links!

15k subscribers530 posts / mo in Sep 2026412 authors / mosince 2015

r/chicagofriends has 15k members (+179% over the last 12 months). It gets about 530 posts a month from 412 people. Top topics: Make Friends, Reddit Meets and Bar Crawl and Drinks.

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Size and growth

How r/chicagofriends has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+179%in 12 months · +33% in 3 months · +5.0% in 1 month
Oct 202615k
Growing15k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+441%vs Sep 2025 · +71% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026530
BusierPeaked at 612 in Aug 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/chicagofriends

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Make Friends6.4%
  2. Reddit Meets0.7%
  3. Bar Crawl and Drinks0.6%
  4. Nightlife and Bars0.5%
  5. LookingForFriends0.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Eventbrite
  2. DICE
  3. Discordapp
  4. Meetup
  5. The Letterboxd Show

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Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research