If this is your first visit to our site, Welcome; if not, Welcome Back. The North Shore Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State is one of more than 100 local chapters of the national organization of Americans United and the second chapter established in Illinois.

We urge visitors to visit the Americans United site for more information on the goals and objectives of Americans United. As you can see, this site is a work in progress and we hope that within a few weeks we'll have more resources and information on local programs, how you can get involved and what actions we can take to preserve the separation of church and state.

A good way the find out what the North Shore Chapter is all about is to attend one of our meetings and participate in our programs. Information on our next meeting is in the colujmn to your right on this page.

Again, Welcome and Thanks for visiting.

The next regular meeting of the North Shore Chapter will be on Thursday, June 24th at 7:00 pm at Northbrook Public Library, 1201 Cedar Lane, Northbrook, IL 60062-4513 - (847) 272-6224.

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Guest Speaker:  Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago School of Law Topic:  Can the First Amendment Separate Religion from Politics?

Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. A member of the law faculty since 1973, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School (1987-1994) and Provost of the University of Chicago (1994-2002). After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1971, Mr. Stone served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Professor Stone has been an editor of the Supreme Court Review since 1991, and is the author or co-author of many books on constitutional law, including most recently Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007), War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007), Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004), and Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era (Chicago 2002). Perilous Times received eight national book awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the L.A. times Book Prize for History.

Professor Stone is currently chief editor of a twenty-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is being published by the Oxford University Press. Mr. Stone’s next major book, Sexing the Constitution, will explore the history of sex from ancient Greece to contemporary constitutional law.

Professor Stone is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Resident Member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society, a member of the national Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a member of the board of the Chicago Children’s Choir.

This meeting is free & open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. If you have any questions, contact Matt Lowry at 847-918-0499 or by e-mail.