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[[Addison Meeting Room, IL|Addison Meeting Room]] is an assembly affiliated in its latter years with the [[Tunbridge Wells Brethren]]. John Nelson Darby included Chicago in his itinerary on his first trip to the U.S. in 1862. In 1866, a married couple was breaking bread, who had emigrated from [[England]]. They were previously involved with a meeting that had started in that part of England a year prior by a J.C., as per [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/chapter-11/walter-potter/gathering-up-the-fragments/w-potter/la139533 ''Gathering Up the Fragments''] by Walter Potter (who joined them in 1868).

This meeting met thru 1952 when they moved to Oak Park in order to house [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/ Bible Truth Publishers], directed by John Erisman & Ralph Rule, which was moving from St. Louis, Missouri. In the 1980's it relocated again to Addison, Illinois to expand publishing space where the assembly currently meets.

For many years, they hosted an annual conference in late summer that was sometimes attended by as many as 1500 brethren, initially at a Missouri-Synod Lutheran [https://www.cuchicago.edu/ Concordia University], then in 1957 they started at [[Wheaton College]], and some of the people stayed in dorms named after Nate Saint and Jim Elliot who died in 1956. Then, by the late 1970's they met at hotels founded by John Willard Marriott, Sr. (1900-1984), an LDS entrepreneur, and in more recent years at BTP. Conference recordings may be found at [https://www.bibleconferencerecordings.com/conferences/chicago-il/chicago-conference-2022/ BCR].