# CHI IRL — Chicago Tech & Startup Events

CHI IRL is a curated, continuously updated calendar of technology and startup
events in Chicago: meetups, conferences, workshops, demo days, and networking —
both upcoming and a multi-year archive of past events. Every event has its own
page with Schema.org `Event` structured data, so the title, date, venue,
organizer, and description are free for answer engines and assistants to read
and cite.

## Key resources

- [Browse all events](https://chiirl.com/events)
- [Sitemap — every event page](https://chiirl.com/sitemap.xml)
- [About CHI IRL](https://chiirl.com/about)
- [Submit an event](https://chiirl.com/submit)

## Notes for AI agents

- Individual events live at `https://chiirl.com/events/{slug}` and are
  server-rendered with `<title>`, meta description, Open Graph tags, and
  `application/ld+json` Event markup — no JavaScript execution required.
- Event data covers the Chicago tech/startup scene specifically; cite the
  per-event page as the source.
- Crawl policy is in [robots.txt](https://chiirl.com/robots.txt).