Well come,
chinook!! I'm a lifelong Chicagoan, myself who welcomes you to this hemisphere, this continent, this website!!
I've only been here about a month & a half, and am not that sophisticated in terms of being online. I found this site a little hard to get around at first, so I will share what I know. When you first "arrive" at the site, roll your mouse over "Community" and you will find "Forums"--click on that to sign in, and find the "threads" (topics). I observe that there are a number of forums for WW, as well as one for UK sisters--and yet another for "Canucks"! So when you find one or more you like:
SUBSCRIBE to it!!
There you go! It's more than I knew coming in. If you're already one of these among the technologically-savvy, forgive me for telling you the obvious. (But if you're not, I know I helped!)
In ANY event, my dear,
--FatToFitVirgo