CULTURAL AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

 -Alliance Française de Chicago, www.af-chicago.org offers classes, cultural events, lecture, workshops, French conversation groups +

 -Alliance Française du North Shore, afnorthshore.org offers French classes, lectures conversation groups +

 -Alliance Française de DuPage County, afdupage.com, offers conversation groups, travel opportunities, book clubs, cooking demos +

 -French in Chicago, frenchinchicago.com lists (in French) cultural events, attractions,  sporting events, etc. in Chicago.

 -Chicago Sister Cities International, chicagosistercities.com, has 28 sister cities, 3 of which are in francophone countries, Casablanca, Morocco; Lucerne Switzerland; Paris France.

 -Sister Cities Association of Palatine, palatinesistercities.org, partners with Fontenay-le-Comte, France. Events open to the public.

 -Sister Cities Commission of Hoffman Estates, hoffmanestates.org, partners with Angoulême, France. Events open to the public.

ONLINE LANGUAGE HELP:

 -ThoughtCo.com offers free online lessons, French verb conjugations, tips and more.

 -Linguée.fr offers translations, bilingual dictionaries, examples sentences and pronunciation.

 -WordReference.com offers dictionaries, conjugations, pronunciations and question forums.

RADIO AND TELEVISION:

 -France24, france24.com, international news channel broadcasts 24/7 in English, French or Spanish

 -Radio France International, https://www.rfi.fr/fr/, French public radio service that broadcasts throughout the world in English, French and 14 other languages.

 -TV5Monde, tv5monde.com, global television network that broadcasts several channels of French language programming in French, English and several other languages.

DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION IN CHICAGO:

 -France, http://chicago.consulfrance.org/

-Belgium, consubel-chicago.org

-Canada, https://www.international.gc.ca/

-Québec, https://international.gouv.qc.ca/fr/accueil