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12/01/26 @ 10:00am - 12/01/26 @ 12:00pm Room C Bloomingdale Public Library

The Historical Book Discussion Group meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. Books are selected on topics of American History from pre-Revolutionary War to present time including biographies, non-fiction, and classics. Copies of the selections are available at the Circulation Desk the month prior to the discussion.

10/27/25 @ 6:30pm - 10/27/25 @ 7:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library Registration is required. Registration starts: 12/31/1969 @ 6:00pm Registration end: 10/27/2025 @ 6:30pm

The Rule of Rum

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt shares the reason rum arose where it did and when it did. She'll talk about how pirates got involved, and who really said “yo ho ho” (not the pirates), but also how rum helped unite the 13 Colonies, as it became one of the issues that led to the American Revolution. She'll also talk about how it also led to a revolt in its next home after the Caribbean: Australia, and how it affected culture and history after that.

Cynthia Clampitt is a writer, geographer, and food historian. She has written textbooks for every major educational publisher in the U.S., including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and National Geographic Learning. She is the author of Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland and Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs: Wild Boar to Baconfest, as well as of the award-winning travel narrative, Waltzing Australia—and it was in Australia that she first became aware of the international impact of the rum trade. Clampitt is a member of the Culinary Historians of Chicago, the Society of Woman Geographers, the Society of Midland Authors, and the Agricultural History Society.

08/14/25 @ 6:00pm - 08/14/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

08/16/25 @ 10:00am - 08/16/25 @ 4:00pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

08/30/25 @ 12:00pm - 08/30/25 @ 5:00pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

10/09/25 @ 5:30pm - 10/09/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

04/06/27 @ 6:00am - 04/06/27 @ 7:00pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Voting opens at 6 a.m.

Voting closes at 7 p.m.

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03/21/28 @ 6:00am - 03/21/28 @ 7:00pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Voting opens at 6 a.m.

Voting closes at 7 p.m.

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11/07/28 @ 6:00am - 11/07/28 @ 7:00pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Voting opens at 6 a.m.

Voting closes at 7 p.m.

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10/13/25 @ 2:00pm - 10/13/25 @ 3:00pm Bloomingdale Public Library

08/05/25 @ 6:30pm - 08/05/25 @ 8:00pm Virtual Bloomingdale Public Library Registration is required. Registration starts: 12/31/1969 @ 6:00pm Registration end: 08/05/2025 @ 6:30pm

Please join us in celebration of the liberation of the Nazi Holocaust camps and end of World War II, eighty years ago.

When veteran journalist, poet, and novelist József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz, he was “lucky" to be sent to a life of slave labor rather than directly to the gas chambers. He survived, and after the war wrote Cold Crematorium, which one reviewer called “the harshest, most merciless indictment of Nazism ever written.”

The work was first published in Hungarian in 1950 but was never translated into a world language due to McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities, and antisemitism. Until now! As of December 2024 the book is available in 10 languages.

Alex Bruner, the author’s nephew and a child of Holocaust survivors, will discuss the historical and family context for his uncle's deportation to Auschwitz and describe the author's hellish journey through multiple slave labor camps. Bruner will share pictures, documents, as well as audio recordings from the book. Bruner will review why his uncle wrote the book, how it was initially received, the reasons it was not translated into a world language until now, and the lessons one can draw from the work, not the least of which is hope. 

09/24/25 @ 6:30pm - 09/24/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

10/01/25 @ 6:30pm - 10/01/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

10/08/25 @ 6:30pm - 10/08/25 @ 8:30pm Room A Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

10/22/25 @ 6:30pm - 10/22/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

10/29/25 @ 6:30pm - 10/29/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

11/05/25 @ 6:30pm - 11/05/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

11/12/25 @ 6:30pm - 11/12/25 @ 8:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

Community Group

08/13/25 @ 1:00pm - 08/13/25 @ 4:30pm Room A/B Bloomingdale Public Library

GLADIATOR II

Wednesday, August 13

1:00pm-4:30pm

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. Also starring Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal. Directed by Ridley Scott.

Rated: R │ Running time: 2 hr 28 mins

08/21/25 @ 6:30pm - 08/21/25 @ 8:30pm Conference Room Bloomingdale Public Library Community Group Monthly board meeting