Archives Chicagoland

Archives Chicagoland Welcome to the Archives! Currently making our home at the Batavia Boardwalk Shops for the 2026 season!

All our deets, in one place!Come see us sometime!
09/08/2026

All our deets, in one place!

Come see us sometime!

Get ready for some good weekend morning conversation with Behati Hart! It's almost time to meet this amazing author and ...
09/08/2026

Get ready for some good weekend morning conversation with Behati Hart! It's almost time to meet this amazing author and enjoy a little cultured chaos!

Join us Saturday, September 12th from 10-11a.m. for a meet and greet and book signing. There will be a reading to start, followed by a Q&A. Trust us, you won't want to miss this!

Come join us and JUST BE together!

📍 Archives, 114 E Wilson St, Batavia
🗓 Saturday, September 12th
⏰️ 10am - 11am
✨️ Event is free to attend, and all are welcome!!

09/08/2026

Love playing tiny bookshop?

Us too. 🎃📚

We’ve added spooky decor to increase horror sales, equipped Goosebumps with his seasonal skeleton skin, and boosted the shop’s overall ✨haunted ambiance✨.
This little bookshop is Moira coded, and hopefully Maryam approved. 🤞🤞🤞

Current stats:
+10 Horror
+5 Cozy
+20 Tiny Bookshop
+100 Goosebumps

Come check out Archives IRL and see if the seasonal decor buff works. 💀🪿👻

🏛️ Retelling Tuesday: Ithaca by Claire NorthBecause we didn’t think the movie did our girl Penelope justice.Odysseus is ...
09/08/2026

🏛️ Retelling Tuesday: Ithaca by Claire North

Because we didn’t think the movie did our girl Penelope justice.

Odysseus is off having an odyssey. Meanwhile, Penelope is home running a kingdom, raising a son, fending off an army of increasingly obnoxious suitors, and trying to keep Ithaca from falling apart.

You know. The little things.

Ithaca takes a familiar myth and shifts the spotlight toward the women who were always there — scheming, surviving, ruling, and generally getting far less credit than the men sailing around fighting monsters.

Pick this one up if you enjoy:
🏺 Greek mythology retellings
👑 Women quietly holding everything together
⚔️ Political maneuvering
🔥 Familiar stories from a very different angle
🙄 Penelope deserving considerably more screen time

Bonus: this one checks off the remix/reimagining prompt in the Archives Reading Challenge.

Odysseus had his turn.

We’re listening to Penelope now.

✊ Labor Day: What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning CampaignsSeems like the right day to t...
09/07/2026

✊ Labor Day: What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaigns

Seems like the right day to talk about who actually has the power at work.

What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know is about understanding workplace power, organizing effectively, and turning frustration into collective action. It’s practical, political, and very much in the spirit of Labor Day.

Pick this one up if you enjoy:
🛠️ Labor history and organizing
✊ Workers knowing their worth
📣 Collective action
🧠 Understanding how power actually works
🔥 Books that give you something to do with your righteous anger

Bonus: this one also checks off the small press prompt in the Archives Reading Challenge, thanks to our friends at PM Press.

Don’t forget! All of PM Press books are now 3 for 35$

For Labor Day, we’re reading about the people who make everything run.

And what happens when they realize it.

OH NO! We ran out of F’s for a bit. 😱Thankfully, has helped us give an F again.💣 THE F-BOMBS ARE RESTOCKED! 💣Our belove...
09/06/2026

OH NO! We ran out of F’s for a bit. 😱

Thankfully, has helped us give an F again.

💣 THE F-BOMBS ARE RESTOCKED! 💣

Our beloved crocheted F-bombs are back after being sold out for weeks, so show some love to 2SassySkeins and stop in and see what other surprises she’s made for you! (A crocheted porch goose? What?! 👀👀👀)

So if you’ve been fresh out of F’s to give, come stock up.

Please give an F. Support local artists. 💜

📚 Sticker Sunday: Make Atwood Fiction AgainA tiny sticker. A very large mood.For anyone who has read The Handmaid’s Tale...
09/06/2026

📚 Sticker Sunday: Make Atwood Fiction Again

A tiny sticker. A very large mood.

For anyone who has read The Handmaid’s Tale, looked around for a second, and thought: wow, this is feeling a little less speculative than advertised.

Perfect for:
📖 Margaret Atwood readers
😬 Nervous laughter
🔥 Dystopian fiction fans
💻 Laptops, water bottles, notebooks, and emotional support clipboards
👀 People who would really prefer the cautionary tale remain cautionary 👀👀👀👀

Make Atwood fiction again.

Please.

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YOU ASKED. WE LISTENED. 🐈📚There’s Always Room by Amanda McGonigal and Abigail Kleber is officially in stock at Archives!...
09/05/2026

YOU ASKED. WE LISTENED. 🐈📚

There’s Always Room by Amanda McGonigal and Abigail Kleber is officially in stock at Archives!

If you already follow Cats on a Couch by Amanda McGonigle , you understand. If you don’t…it’s a great book anyway!

Come grab a copy, follow the cats, and help Amanda achieve her completely normal and not-at-all-specific goals for both follower counts and book sales.

Because apparently there’s always room on the couch — and on the bestseller list. 😌🐈

Cats on a Couch by Amanda McGonigle

Hurry down onto the Batavia Boardwalk Shops for the perfect evening!Step 1. Come check out our NEW ARRIVALS, grab a gent...
09/04/2026

Hurry down onto the Batavia Boardwalk Shops for the perfect evening!

Step 1. Come check out our NEW ARRIVALS, grab a gently used book looking for its new home on your shelf, or download an audiobook from https://libro.fm/archiveschicagoland/about and join in listening to the latest stories.

Step 2. Grab a drink from The Soda Surf and a snack from Fork N Fry Poutine to enjoy while you read! Here today from 4-7!!

Step 3. Browse Alyssa Smith-Menéndez Relish - for people who cook and people who eat Bad Luck Club clara nicole jewelry Amy Klapperich Furio The Gindos Ashley Frye to work off the satisfaction of a good meal and bring home your newest treasures!!

Step 4. Finish up with a sweet treat from Lindy Kuharik and head home happy.

Hurry! You won't want to miss this!

⚡ First Nations Friday: Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointeQ***r. Indigenous. Punk. Unapologetic.In Thunder Song, C...
09/04/2026

⚡ First Nations Friday: Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

Q***r. Indigenous. Punk. Unapologetic.

In Thunder Song, Coast Salish author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe blends personal history, family stories, music, culture, and resistance into a powerful collection of essays about what it means to carry your heritage while still deciding who you get to become.

Pick this one up if you enjoy:
⚡ Essays with teeth
🎸 Punk music and rebellion
🌿 Indigenous identity and community
🌈 Q***r stories
🔥 Writing that refuses to make itself smaller

Bonus: this one also checks off a prompt in the Archives Reading Challenge — read a book by a First Nations/Indigenous author

For First Nations Friday, we’re making room for stories that are rooted, loud, complicated, and entirely their own.

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