Evanston: Chicago Zen Center
- Offers daily zazen and periodic sesshins. Harada-Yasutani lineage.
- http://www.chicagozen.org/

Chicago: Zen Buddhist Temple
- Member of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, Chogye Order. Offers weekly services.
- http://users.rcn.com/chicagobuddha/locations/chicago/

Evanston: Zen Buddhist Temple of Chicago
- Offer Zen meditation (zazen) services in the Soto Zen tradition three times weekly.
- http://www.zbtc.org

Bartlett: Awakening Heart Sangha
- Offers practice in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
- http://www.awakeningheartsangha.org/

Champaign: Prairie Zen Center
- Offers weekly sittings, periodic workshops, six sesshins per year, and a resident teacher. Practices in the lineage established by Charlotte Joko Beck, founder of the Ordinary Mind School, in the Harada Yasutani lineage.
- http://www.prairiezen.org/

Barringtion: Great Plains Zen Center, Subtle Mind Temple, Myoshinji
- Member of the White Plum Asangha, in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. Offers weekly zazen and periodic retreats. Myoyu Andersen Sensei, spiritual director.
- http://www.greatplainszen.org/

Springfield: Sangamon River Zen Center
- Member of the Ordinary Mind School of Zen, Harada-Yasutani lineage. Offers weekly zazen practice.
- http://www.sangamonzen.org/

Evanston: Heartland Sangha
- Practices a pan-sectarian Buddhism drawn from the original teachings of Gautama Buddha, Jodo Shinshu, Zen Buddhism and engaged Buddhism. Offers periodic Buddhist services.
- http://www.heartlandsangha.org/