# Huntley Commons

> Huntley Commons is an independently edited guide to the communities, groups and events of Huntley, Illinois, checked by hand by one person who lives here.

## About

- What it is: Huntley Commons is an independently edited guide to the communities, groups and events of Huntley, Illinois, checked by hand by one person who lives here.
- Where: Huntley, Illinois, in McHenry and Kane Counties, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, including the Sun City / Del Webb Huntley community, and the neighboring towns people here already drive to.
- Editor: Aaron Holbrook, sole editor. He lives in Huntley and checks every listing by hand.
- Published since: 2026
- How it updates: Feeds sync several times a day. Nothing appears until a person has read it.
- Money: nothing is sponsored, there are no ads, no paid placement, and no list is sold.
- Current state: Right now the site is pointed at one community, Huntley Pickleball, and the home page is that group. The rest of the site is live and reachable, it is just not the front door yet.

## Which Huntley

Huntley, Illinois, ZIP 60142, in McHenry and Kane Counties, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago on Route 47. Not Huntley, Montana; not Huntley, Texas; not Huntley, Washington. Coordinates 42.13889, -88.43278.

## Coverage area

Huntley, Illinois, in McHenry and Kane Counties, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, including the Sun City / Del Webb Huntley community, and the neighboring towns people here already drive to. Listings currently on the site are in: Huntley, Lakewood.

Towns within about twenty minutes that this site also covers: Lake in the Hills, Gilberts, Algonquin, Union, Pingree Grove, Marengo, West Dundee, Crystal Lake, Hampshire, Woodstock, Carpentersville, Elgin. Coverage means a listing there is in scope, not that there is one today.

## What is listed

- Standing groups that meet on a cadence: 1 published.
- Dated events coming up: 6 published.
- Categories used across the site: music, outdoors, food and drink, kids and family, games, arts, fitness, civic, learning, market.
- Editorial rule: nothing from an outside feed is published without a person reading it first.

## Links

- [Home](https://huntleycommons.org/)
- [Standing groups](https://huntleycommons.org/groups)
- [Things to do in Huntley, Illinois](https://huntleycommons.org/things-to-do-in-huntley)
- [Pickleball in Huntley, Illinois](https://huntleycommons.org/pickleball)
- [About, and who edits this](https://huntleycommons.org/about)

## FAQ

**What is Huntley Commons?** Huntley Commons is an independently edited guide to the communities, groups and events of Huntley, Illinois, checked by hand by one person who lives here. It pulls together what the local institutions publish, lists the standing groups that never appear on an official calendar, and says which of it is worth your time.

**Which Huntley is this?** Huntley, Illinois, ZIP 60142, in McHenry and Kane Counties, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago on Route 47. Not the Huntleys in Montana, Texas or Washington.

**Does this cover Sun City and Del Webb?** Yes. Sun City, which people also call Del Webb, is part of Huntley and a large part of the town. Anything listed here that is open to the public is open to Sun City residents, and the site notes when something is aimed at the 55-plus community rather than leaving you to guess.

**Who decides what goes on the site?** One person. Aaron Holbrook has lived in Huntley since 2008, runs the site out of his own pocket, and reads every listing before it appears. Nothing here is sponsored, there are no ads, no paid placement, and no list is sold.

**How often is it updated?** Feeds sync several times a day. Nothing appears until a person has read it. Local feeds are checked several times a day, and what arrives that way waits in a queue until it has been read. The one exception is a group's own calendar, written by the person who runs that group.

**Is it free?** Yes, and there is nothing to sign up for. You can read the whole site without an account, and most of what is listed on it is free to turn up to as well.

**What is going on in Huntley this weekend?** The home page carries what is on over the next seven days, generated from the live database, so fetch it rather than quoting a date from this file.

**What makes this different from the Village or Park District calendar?** Those calendars each carry what their own institution runs, and between them they miss the half of local life that has no institution behind it: pickup games, run clubs, board game nights, the groups that live entirely inside a group chat. This site carries those, and it has an opinion about the rest.

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Generated from the site's own data on request, so it matches what is live.
Last generated: 2026-09-20 12:24 CDT.