Long Grove/Lake Zurich Toastmasters Club

06/29/2026

🎤 Looking to become a more confident speaker?

Whether you're preparing for presentations at work, interviewing for a new opportunity, leading meetings, or simply want to feel more comfortable speaking in front of others, Toastmasters is a great place to grow.

Long Grove / Lake Zurich Toastmasters Club #169 has been helping people develop communication and leadership skills since 1940, making us the oldest Toastmasters club in District 30.

📍 We meet in person at the Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month.

👋 Guests are always welcome! There's no pressure to speak—you're welcome to simply observe, or if you're feeling adventurous, participate in our fun Table Topics® session.

Come see why our members have been returning for decades. We'd love to meet you!

03/25/2025

Back in February we had our annual international Evaluation and Speech Contest we congratulate our winners for the contest and we thank the help from District 30 for helping us put on the contest.
1st Place Mark Lounds
2nd Place Erika Navareette
3rd Place Anu Palakodety

International Contest
1st Place Glen Roberts
2nd Place Anu Palakodety

Congratulations to Craig our Contest Chair on a successful contest. He did a tremendous job and will get credit in his Pathways Level 5 High Performance Leadership.

Thank you to our guest Contest Toastmaster and our dear friend John Labbe from Mount Prospect Toastmasters for helping us with the contest.
And thank you to all the functionaries and guests. You helped make the contest fun and successful. We look forward to our next contest and seeing the winners from this contest as they go to the next round! Again we meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Ela Library in Lake Zurich! We also have a zoom link as we are a hybrid club dm us for that link as it is available via DM only because of an unforeseen event that happened in the past.

10/16/2023

FYI we have changed locations for our meetings! We are now meeting at the Ela Area Library and the Barrington Area Library as a backup! We will still be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month at 7:00 PM. We look forward to meeting you and hopefully having you join our club, we welcome everyone! And for those who can’t join us in person we are a hybrid club as we also meet on Zoom also link for our Zoom is below also!

Zoom link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2198439637?pwd=UGlLR1NoQm01bTlncm1GWS81UHhGZz09

Ela Area Library Address
275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich, IL 60047
Barrington Area Library Address
505 Northwest Hwy, Barrington, IL 60010

10/16/2023

Hi everyone, hope you all are doing great as we are! Here are some pictures from some of our last few meetings! We have permanently moved out of the Holiday Inn on Rand Road and our new meeting spots are the Ela Area Library at 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich, IL 60047 and sometimes we will meet at the Barrington Area Library at 505 Northwest Hwy, Barrington, IL 60010 or on Zoom as we are a Hybrid Club. We will continue to meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month at 7:00 PM. We welcome anyone to come and join us for our meetings and to even to join our club! We are the oldest club in the state of Illinois as we have been around for over 80 years and we will continue to be a force for the public speaking community of the Chicagoland area and Toastmasters District 30, but for the whole state of Illinois! Join us for our next meeting next week Tuesday at the Barrington Area Library address listed above at 7:00 PM we can’t wait to see you, meet you, and hopefully have you join our club!

06/28/2023

Big thanks to everyone who came to our meeting tonight as we are still hybrid post covid we thank our Humorist Nandine, John for Table topics, Awanee as Speaker 1, Nandine as Speaker 2 on her first speech as she did her Icebreaker, and Valerie as our last speaker for the night! We also thank our evaluators tonight also! We also thank our four guests who came to our meeting! For those not familiar when we meet two times a month every other week at 7:00 PM. Our next meeting is July 11th We meet in person at the Lake Zurich Holiday Inn conference room located at 197 S. Rand Road, Lake Zurich, IL 60047 and on zoom! Zoom link is below on our website just hit the Click Here during our meeting date and time and our zoom moderator will accept you in to join! Again thanks to everyone for a great meeting tonight! We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting July 11th at 7:00 PM!

https://longgrovelakezurichtoastmasterschapter169.toastmastersclubs.org

07/25/2022

Join us on Friday for the Leadership Training!

Marty Jalove of “Master Happiness” is an artist, writer, poet, philosopher, inventor, father, and friend. A euphoric optimist, persistently pursuing his passion of helping hundreds harness happiness.

Marty is so incredibly proud to say that Toastmasters has helped him launch his career as an International Business, Life, and Storytelling Coach!

With over 30 years of Sales and Marketing Management experience, he instructs numerous workshops on the Power of Presentation, Communicating your Thoughts, Debate without Hate, Finding your SIZZLE, the Psychology of Selling Yourself, and so much more

He enjoys speaking in front of adults and children hoping to help them discover their “inner BACON” …their Passion, Mission, and Evolution! And teach them how to explode with excitement, every time that they speak.

Join Marty as he illustrates “A, E, I, O, U and always WHY” to help you and your club answer the question “What’s Your BACON?”

05/27/2022

Let's stop talking for a minute and start doing!

Sign up today to donate on June 2. Time Slots are filling up!
Giving blood is never in vain!

Give a pint and have a pint at Buffalo Creek Brewing

Join us in June for a Pint for a Pint event here at the taproom. We're donating a pint of b**r for each individual who donates a pint of blood. Talk about win-win! Details below to sign up.

01/18/2022

YOU'RE A GOOD GIRL (or boy)! No reason to just sit quietly...WE want to hear what you've go to say.

Guests are ALWAYS welcome at www.169.ToastmastersClubs.org
We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm!
Zoom on over to one of our meetings.

There is a reason why 169 • Long Grove / Lake Zurich Toastmasters is the oldest club around...come check out a meeting and find out why!
www.169.ToastmastersClubs.org