Local organizations

Learned societies:

Illinois Mycological Association — Their main meeting place is the Chicago Botanic Garden, and many of their other events occur near Chicago.

Events and surveys
YouTube
The annual show is the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. (in early September)
Social media: Instragram

Chicago Mushroom Club

Social media: Instagram, Discord

Wisconsin Mycological Society — They meet near Milwaukee.

Madison Mycological Society

Other organizations:

Thorsten Lumbsch, PhD [2] — Vice president of science, chair of the department of botany, associate curator.
~~Sabine Huhndorf~~, PhD — Assistant curator.
Steven Leavitt, PhD [2] — Postdoctoral research scientist.
Eimy Rivas Plata, PhD
Robert Lücking, PhD [2] — Adjunct curator, and collections Manager.
Patrick R. Leacock, PhD [2] — Adjunct curator.
~~Carrie Andrew~~, PhD [2] — Research assistant.
Sue Zaleski Hamnik — Research assistant.
Wyatt Gaswick — Assistant collections manager, fungi and lichens.
list of volunteers

Collections — The basement level of the museum.
- Collections overview — [Fungi] [Lichens]
- Collections details — [Fungi] [Lichens]
- Collections staff
- Policies on herbarium loans
- Paleobotany collections
- Collections Club — Volunteers who help digitize the collections.
- Field Museum Collections 101 — [1] [2] [3]
Library — On the third floor, by appointment only.

NAMA (the North American Mycological Association) donates the specimens from its annual Fungal Diversity Survey to the collections at the Field Museum of Chicago. [collections details]

MycoGuide — Lots of assorted information here.

Lichenology organizations

Bigger organizations

Local organizations

Bigger organizations whose focus is bigger than just lichenology