McGaw YMCA

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym, highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: The team are always kind and ready to help. Love the yoga and gym classes!

Fantastic experience: I saw a comment that she wouldn’t want to take her children to this Y and I cannot imagine why not this is the best Y in this whole Chicagoland area it is always clean people are friendly it’s got everything you need It serves the youth in North Chicago and Evanston it’s fantastic. The staff is very helpful. They clean and paint every year. the equipment they’re always replacing equipment with new and better equipment I’ve In the member here for about 12 years I have gone several Otherwise in the city and I love this why I would never want to go anywhere else

Fantastic experience: Wonderful neighborhood workout option! I highly recommend Kristy V’s ZUMBA classes!!

Fantastic experience: Would definitely recommend if you're looking for a gym with lots of offerings in Evanston! I've been a member for a few years now, and can tell that the Y cares about its members and is always looking to improve. Great class offerings, facilities and equipment are always clean and in good condition, never too crowded, lots of workout space options. The people who work here are friendly and helpful. I also really appreciate that they offer membership rates based on your income, that has helped me maintain a membership for so long.

Fantastic experience: This place has all the things you need for community and health. The trainers and massage therapists are excellent, the nutritionist has a wonderful manner and great knowledge. Being a part of their mission is the best icing on the cake.

Fantastic experience: Good staff Weight lifting Spacious 45 mins. reserved per hour

Fantastic experience: I like the equipment and the staff I've met.

Fantastic experience: I love the pool & the aqua fit class!

Fantastic experience: Great place to live and work. Great gym, pools, facilities in general. Great people who work here and awesome members who are my neighbors.

Fantastic experience: I must say the set up and the activities (classes) are great zumba with Biesha are exhilarating and I like using the workout room

Fantastic experience: Great experience watching their outreach to their community.

Fantastic experience: Babysitting while you work out - even for infants!

Fantastic experience: A very clean and safe place with a daycare for the young ones and a teen after school program (free I might add). It has 2 pools one for fun and one for lap swim with 2 women's locker room and 1 family locker room. Spacious with a study room if needed. It has an amazing gym to work out in a basket ball gym and a track! It's equipped with the best machines and the best staff! Is is clean and has a room in Which you can eat. Along with a sky deck to overlook the pool! It's the perfect place to bring kids and family. With new workout classes everyday it is the best place to get your optimal workout.

Fantastic experience: A wonderful community asset staffed by knowledgeable friendly people.

Fantastic experience: Love their Camp Echo. The place is very loving and cheering for anyone who visit them. They have huge pool area with Family swimming time as well as a Jacuzzi. Group activity area offers various classes all day. Moms can leave their kids 2 hours per day in the child watch.

Fantastic experience: Very clean facility. Friendly staff. Great workout equipment, 2 pools, running track, large gym.

Fantastic experience: A great facility with an courteous staff. They also seem to have an excellent system in place since they reopened after the pandemic shutdown. I would highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place with a awesome staff !!

Fantastic experience: sleep eat workout .. cheap place to sign up

Fantastic experience: Not a bad YMCA. There are new updatedsection that meet so old historic sections. Parking for the Y is very difficult, so beware.

Fantastic experience: Didn’t realize how much of a gem this place is until I visited other gyms in the area. Building is old but very clean and the people who work here are amazing. Every one of them.

Fantastic experience: I am a Resident Member since Mid March 2019.

Fantastic experience: Been a member here for many years. It's by far the finest and best YMCA in the Chicagoland area.

Fantastic experience: A great workout facility that offers two pools, a well equipped gym, and many many types of group exercise classes. Staff are friendly and helpful. Hours are both early am and late evening. They even have free parking and childcare available to members.

Fantastic experience: I have never joined a YMCA or been much for going to the Gym, but I thoroughly enjoy this place. I take advantage of the 2 hours of childcare they give at the Biedler Center in the basement and my 3 year old adore playing in there. I like working our here during the winter and in the summer I use their lounge to be work done qhile my kid plays. They have a lot of different activities that my wife joins.

Fantastic experience: Community feeling with excelente swimming pools. All kinds of choices.

Fantastic experience: They have a great child care and summer camp. Also their gym is great and easy to figure out.

Fantastic experience: Great swim team for Age Group Swimmers, and those entering the Senior swimming arena. Competitive enough that is your child wants to push themselves to the state level that can because the coaching staff are also good enough to get them there.

Fantastic experience: Great pools, aquatics, racquetball courts, lockers and gym. Great family locker room, child care for while you work out and family gym and swim. Family gym and swim will help you survive the winter with younger kids. Their childcare will give you time to get in shape.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff with up to date equipment. Even has racquetball leagues for all levels. Nice place overall.

Fantastic experience: This is a very clean gym with plenty of machines and weights to use without having to wait in line.

Fantastic experience: I go to the YMCA almost every day. I love the facilities and the people ... especially JayJay.

Fantastic experience: An awesome workout experience. 1st the workout,then a relaxing steam,and a great shower.Always feel like a new person afterwards.

Fantastic experience: Grew up going to the Y, and as an adult, I have always preferred it to other gyms. McGaw is great, and I love the child care they provide.

Fantastic experience: Pool and exercise room are always open (during Y hours). JayJay makes our day, every day.

Fantastic experience: An Evanston institution. The McGaw Y is always trying to improve their facilities and services. Great place to work out, meet new friends, and try out a new class.

Fantastic experience: Perfect place for people of all ages to find something to do with their time.

Fantastic experience: Two classy swimming pools, nice facilities for lots of fitness activities. Yoga, Zumba, personal fitness consultations.

Fantastic experience: Great place for my teenagers to go. They love it.

Fantastic experience: Full of fun ànd activities for young people and elders.

Fantastic experience: Great family work out place

Fantastic experience: Great classes, convenient schedule.

Fantastic experience: Friendly environment and clean place to work out.

Fantastic experience: The Taj Mahal, Taj McGaw and better known as the McGaw YMCA has been a great experience during my time from July 2016-August 2017. Wonderful staff, terrific facilities, great residential life staff and excellent location. McGaw YMCA has the best residential life facilities in the Chicagoland Area. McGaw YMCA’s Resident Department is second best in the State of Illinois, right behind Champaign-Urbana. Plus, Meta Media Lab in the facility has grown into another icon for the community. The McGaw YMCA is located in the heart of Downtown Evanston. This is near all of the bars, restaurants, movie theatre, CTA, and Metra Stations. Definitely miss it already. It was definitely my second home during my three years living in the Chicagoland Area before relocation. Keep up the great work McGaw YMCA. I would definitely recommend this place.

Fantastic experience: First class operation in a beautiful old well maintained structure

Fantastic experience: Great fitness center with all the amenities that one could need! Friendly staff and really nice male locker room attended. Overall one of the best fitness centers I have been a member at.

Fantastic experience: Best YMCA! Super friendly community and staff. Great updated equipment, and it's the home of racquetball!

Fantastic experience: Full featured gym equipment, weights, large indoor track, racquetball, squash, swimming pool, nice locker rooms. Great for families and a fixture of the community!

Fantastic experience: I have been around clubs, including exclusive social clubs all my life, some in Chicago when my family used to live there in the 70s and myself as a reciprocal member of my old club in Europe. The YMCA Evanston has superb facilities and staff head and shoulders above the competition in Evanston. Actually they have no competition. It is so much more than a fitness club.