Archived - Shows And Events

June 11-12, 2016 - The market includes more than 200 vendors featuring gardening items, antiques, art collectibles, vintage clothing and more. Offered for sale will be a variety of antiques and collectibles, including country furniture, estate jewelry. Victoriana, postcards, art glass and porcelains, advertising items, old toys, vintage clothing and linens, coins, decorator items, paintings, primi...

The Annual meeting will be held in Hilton Hotel Springfield, 700 E Adams St., Springfield, IL. The American Breweriana Association Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt educational and historical corporation founded in 1982. Our purpose is to advance the public knowledge of brewing and breweriana; to serve historians and collectors, and dedicated to the preservation of the memories and artifac...

June 5 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition brings together 50 works by some of the foremost artists of the era, including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood, to examine the landscape of the United States during the Great Depression and the many avenues artists explored as they sought to forge a new national art and identity. Bringing these diverse works of art together, America aft...

June 4 - November 13, 2016 - The Propeller Group’s exhibition at the MCA is the first in the Ascendant Artist series to feature both a collective and artists working in Asia. The show presents a number of multi-part projects from the past five years, comprised of videos and related objects. Fade In tracks the fake antiques trade in Vietnam. The exhibition is accompanied by a new monograph that fea...

Butterflies & Blooms is a butterfly exhibition where visitors can immerse themselves in a habitat filled with hundreds of live butterflies. This exhibition is filled with species native to South America, Asia, North America, and Africa, as well as those native to Illinois. The 2,800-square-foot white mesh enclosure is located on the Annex Road, as you head out from the Visitor Center to McDonald W...

May 21 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition reunites for the first time the surviving photographs and texts intended for the two projects, including never-before-seen photographs by Parks from the collections of the Art Institute and the Gordon Parks Foundation and unpublished manuscripts by Ellison. Revealed in these frank depictions of Harlem is Ellison and Parks’s symbiotic insistence on making ...

May 21-22, 2016 - Antiques, vintage, vintage jewelry, vintage clothing, collectibles, mid century modern, vintage clothing, vintage furniture, vintage jewelry, vintage decor, vintage home, vintage experts, decorative arts, vintage lighting, decorating, design, and more. The Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois is conveniently located in the beautiful Fox River Valley, just an hour from Chi...

May 14-15, 2016 - This Belleville gun show is held at Belle Clair Fairgrounds and hosted by ECA Hunting and Trade Shows of Illinois. All federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed. There will be an opportunity to BUY - SELL - TRADE and a lot of Guns, Knives, Ammo and Scopes! This is the largest Hunting and Trade Show of Illinois so don't miss it!! Sunday 9:00am – 3:00pm Ad...

May 13-14, 2016 - The Hyde Park Garden Fair will help fulfill your garden needs and plans. If you are dreaming of a lush, beautiful garden, you will find hundreds of flats of annuals in every color and form, 1,000 pots of perennials, large numbers and varieties of beautiful hanging baskets and geraniums, and unique vines, trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Event held at Hyde Park Shopping Center.

The 2016 annual meeting and convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel and Conference Center.​ The annual convention is held over a four day weekend every Spring in different locations around the United States making it easily accessible to all members. It is a fun and relaxing time for avid scale collectors to get together to share their hobby. The progr...