Your neighbors, your friends, and prominent members of society have joined over a million other men as Freemasons.
Members of the Masonic Fraternity have been making positive contributions to our communities for over 160 years through programs that promote education, reduce substance abuse, care for the elderly, and care for our youth.
Today, the Grand Lodge of Illinois comprises more than 500 Lodges and over 70,000 Masons - men of character from every walk of life all working together to build a better world.
To find out how you can become a Mason, click the link to the left to "ask to be one." ...Start your journey!
" According to local Masons, Brown’s portrayal of the Masonry, the world’s oldest fraternal order, was accurate, if not a bit sensational..."
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" He's on a mission, to finish the 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon in less than five hours, hoping to qualifying to run in Boston next spring...."
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Raised as a Master Mason on August 28th 1979 in Williamson lodge No. 802 in Carterville, IL. He served as their Worshipful Master in 1982 ...."
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of the Year
- Carson Allen Spear, Sr. -...through all the horrors of war, from a foxhole, to a prison camp...."
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In order to keep you informed of some of the happenings of our Grand Lodge I am instituting a short GM Bulletin which will be sent to all Lodge Secretaries...
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The MSAP training is an intensive two-day program which assists educators in identifying, intervening, and referring students who may be at risk...
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Reception of RWB Anthony Cracco announced for April
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Pictures from Reception at Carbondale of Most Worshipful
Grand Master Richard Swaney
available for viewing
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New article for February posted at the Learning Corner
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