LOGAN SQUARE — Less than 24 hours after Laura Baginski told her long-time friend and fellow Gen X-er Susie Lee about her dream of creating a judgement-free dance party for women of a certain age, Lee had secured a venue, a date and a DJ.

With a motto of “a dance party for ladies who got sh*t to do in the morning,” the duo’s Earlybirds Club was born. Since its first sold-out event at Logan Square’s The Burlington in February 2024, Earlybirds has brought its packed party for women, trans and non-binary people from Brooklyn to L.A. and multiple cities in between. The events quickly sell out.

For Lee, time was always part of the equation. Diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer in 2020 after three previous rounds with the disease as well as Hodgkin’s lymphoma in college, Lee was und

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