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Elmhurst Craft Beer Fest

Elmhurst, IL · Food & Drink

When

September 19, 2026

Where

Elmhurst History Museum, 120 E Park Ave · Elmhurst · IL

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A 21 and over craft beer festival on the grounds of the Elmhurst History Museum, run by the Elmhurst Heritage Foundation to fund museum programs and the historic Churchville schoolhouse. Now in its 11th year, it pairs regional breweries with the museum's Beaux Arts mansion setting. Proceeds go directly to local preservation work.

The history within reach

• The Twinkie invented5.0 mi

  James Dewar devised the snack cake at the Schiller Park bakery in 1930, originally with banana filling..

• O'Hare becomes the world's busiest5.5 mi

  Renamed for aviator Edward O'Hare in 1949, the airfield displaced Midway as the world's busiest by the early 1960s..

• Loyola's medical campus, built on a speedway and an airmail field6.0 mi

  This ground in Maywood was a board track auto speedway and then an air mail field, one of the runs Charles Lindbergh flew before Paris.

• The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument6.4 mi

  The men convicted and hanged after the 1886 Haymarket bombing are buried here under a bronze by Albert Weinert, raised in 1893 by supporters who held that the trial had been a frame up.

• Forest Park, the village where the dead outnumber the living6.8 mi

  Six cemeteries sit inside this one small village: Forest Home, German Waldheim, Concordia, Woodlawn, Jewish Waldheim and Altenheim.