Enjoy games, arts & crafts, trick-or-treating, Halloween tours, and more!

9:00am to 1:00pm in the Village Complex Parking Area

(sponsored by the Bloomingdale Police & Fire Departments and Bloomingdale Park District)

11:00am to 2:00pm in the Library Parking Area

(sponsored by the Bloomingdale Public Library)

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Be a T-Rexplorer!

See dinosaur bones up close

and get a glimpse of what it’s like to go on a dig with real dinosaur fossils.

Come early and see

Ranger the T. Rex

in front of the library!

Monday, October 10

10:00-11:00am

drop-in | for all ages

On The Same Page is an annual month-long community reading event hosted by Bloomingdale Public Library,

Roselle Public Library District, and

Itasca Community Library. This year’s choice is Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall. Complimentary copies of the title are available while quantities last. Visit www.mybpl.org/OTSP for the event page with links to register for all events there. We hope you can join in on this great community read!

The Friends of the Bloomingdale Public Library will be holding their first meeting for 2022! The next Friends of the Library meeting is Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00pm in Room B. We will have early-bird registration for 2023 and a giveaway for each new registration. If you have any questions/comments/concerns, please contact the Friends at mybplfriends@gmail.com

Join us for an evening with local author Joe Ziemba who has a new nonfiction book out called Bears vs. Cardinals: The NFL's Oldest Rivalry. The program will take us back to a time when individuals played with little equipment  protection, gangsters interrupted NFL games, and players worked second jobs during the professional football season. We'll share recently discovered details on the poor financial status of the Chicago Bears in the 1920s and 30s and how the owner of the rival Chicago Cardinals loaned Bears' owner George Halas the funding to keep his team afloat. 



Books will be available to purchase and autographed by the author!

Join us for an evening with Internationally acclaimed and award winning shipwreck photographer Cal Kothrade. Cal has spent the last ten years traveling North America to dive and capture haunting images of some of the most incredible and historically significant shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.

In this 45 minute presentation, Cal takes us on a visual tour of ten of the most photogenic and commonly dived shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Breathtaking images and a brief story of each tragedy help to tell the tale of life, and loss on the tempestuous Great Lakes. 

Presented by Shipwreck Photographer Cal Kothrade.

Travel the lake's Michigan and Wisconsin coasts to learn the history and legends of the lighthouses that guided ships through its treacherous waters.

Presented by retired librarian and travel enthusiast Nancy McCully.

Detroit is commonly seen as the symbol of American industrial might, but also a symbol of postindustrial decline. Find out what explains the development of a high standard of ordinary workers and its subsequent disappearance.

Presented by Sam Mitrani, professor of history, College of DuPage, and Maureen Heffern Ponicki, assistant professor of political science, College of DuPage.

In the 20th century, it could be extremely dangerous for people of color to travel. Many businesses would not provide service to people of color and would make clear they served "whites only." For nearly 30 years, a guide initially called the Negro Traveler Green Book offered advice about safe places to eat and sleep. Victor Hugo Green and later his wife Alma published this guide from 1936-1966. Learn about its role in the struggle for civil rights during this virtual slide presentation by Karen Hall, Executive Director of the Glen Ellyn Historical Society.

Learn how to use the library's Makerspace equipment to make a Halloween-themed wooden sign. Computer experience is required.

Registration Limit: 4 patrons max per session, Bloomingdale Public Library card required, ages 12 to adult.

Please sign up for one session:

Tuesday, October 4 | 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Monday, October 10 | 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Registration opens October 1 at 9:00 a.m.

For Bloomingdale cardholders ages 12-17, please bring a completed Makerspace waiver filled out by a parent or legal guardian. Adult Bloomingdale cardholders can fill out a waiver at the session.

As always, check our calendar or the the October/November Almanac to see exciting programming available for all ages!