At 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, the parking lot at 800 S. Rohlwing Road will start filling with Thanksgiving pumpkins. By 2 a.m. the next morning, Shoeless Joe's on West Lake Street will be closing. Between those two times, an Addison Public Library card is worth something at 11 local businesses. The catch is that the offers sit on very different schedules.
The Addison Public Library's Small Business Saturday 2026 promotion started Sunday, Nov. 1, and runs through Monday, Nov. 30. Show your library card at a participating business and you get a discount, a free item or a giveaway. There's one rule at the register: hand over the card at the start of the transaction, not after the total rings up. If your card is in a junk drawer somewhere, the library explains how to get one at addisonlibrary.org/get-a-card.
The eleven offers, sorted by when you can use them on Nov. 28
| Business | Address | Library-card offer | Saturday window |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCARCE-LY Used Books & Records | 800 S. Rohlwing Rd. | $5 off when you spend $10 | 9 a.m. to noon, regular hours |
| AddiZone | 17 N. Addison Rd. | 15% off your purchase | Listed 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| First American Bank | 1780 Fullerton Ave. | Free branded item | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. |
| House of Paws and Plants | 65 E. Fullerton Ave. | One free frosted dog treat | Listed 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
| Aurelio's Pizza | 1455 W. Lake St. | 15% off, up to $5 | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Shoeless Joe's Alehouse and Grille | 1480 W. Lake St. | 10% off food, not alcohol | 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., kitchen until midnight |
| Muggs-N-Manor | 437 S. Addison Rd. | $10 off a purchase of $40 or more | 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. |
| Marcus Addison Cinema | 1555 W. Lake St. | Free complimentary-size popcorn with a ticket | Showtimes vary |
| Addison Historical Museum | 135 W. Army Trail Blvd. | Free branded item | Not open Nov. 28 |
| Addison Bank and Trust | 114 E. Lake St. | Free branded item | Location page shows it temporarily closed |
| Love Notes Events | Roselle, by appointment | Free Guest Experience package, a $295 value, with a booking | Not a walk-in stop |
Three of the eight Saturday stops shut down by 1 p.m., and House of Paws and Plants follows at 4. The other four stay open into the night, and three of those sit within about a hundred house numbers of each other on West Lake Street. Start on Rohlwing and end on Lake, and the list works.
Before noon, the day starts on Rohlwing Road
SCARCE is an Addison nonprofit that works on environmental education, reuse and sustainable communities, based at 800 S. Rohlwing Road, Unit D, along Route 53. On Nov. 28 it's holding Pumpkin Smash Round Two from 9 a.m. to noon. It's aimed at households with leftover Thanksgiving pumpkins, and you can drop off used cooking oil for recycling at the same time. For the oil, DuPage County's pop-up collection guidance asks for liquid vegetable oil in a container. Bacon grease and other solid animal fats aren't accepted, and containers aren't returned.
The library-card offer is in the same building. SCARCE-LY Used Books & Records sells used books, records, CDs, DVDs, craft supplies and holiday items. Its regular hours are weekdays 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon. Those Saturday hours line up exactly with the smash. Spend $10 and the library card takes $5 off. The money supports SCARCE's Reuse Center, which supplies low-cost educational materials to schools and nonprofits and keeps those materials out of landfills. The shop opened in 2017 and has since moved into a space of about 1,700 square feet.
Plan this stop around Thanksgiving week. SCARCE closes at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 25, and stays closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26 and 27. That includes the book shop. That leaves Saturday's three hours as the first chance after the holiday to use the offer in person.
Late morning on Addison Road and Fullerton
Next come the stops that wind down after lunch. AddiZone, at 17 N. Addison Road, is an açaí-bowl, waffle, smoothie, tea and coffee spot. Its listed Saturday hours are 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The card takes 15% off, the same percentage as Aurelio's but without the $5 cap. Its Instagram is the fastest place to confirm holiday-weekend hours.
First American Bank's Addison branch at 1780 Fullerton Ave. is open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, both in the lobby and at the drive-up. Show your card and you get a free branded item. The bank also posts a holiday-hours schedule, so check that for the Thanksgiving weekend.
On the same road, House of Paws and Plants at 65 E. Fullerton Ave. does dog training, dog retail, a treat bar and dog washes, plus houseplants and plant workshops. The offer is one free frosted dog treat. Saturday is listed as 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The shop is closed Monday, Tuesday and Friday, so Black Friday is out.
After dark, three offers within a hundred house numbers on West Lake
By late afternoon the daytime stops are closed, and the second half of the list is just getting started. Aurelio's Pizza at 1455 W. Lake St., Shoeless Joe's Alehouse and Grille at 1480 W. Lake St. and the Marcus Addison Cinema at 1555 W. Lake St. form the tightest cluster on the list.
Here's how they fit together. At Marcus, the card gets you one complimentary-size popcorn when you buy a ticket and show the card at the concession stand. It's limited to one per card per visit and only for in-person orders, not online or in the app. Addison Cinema is one of Marcus's locations with DreamLounger reclining seats and an UltraScreen large-format auditorium.
Dinner can be on either side of the movie. Aurelio's Addison is a full-service pizza restaurant with dine-in, carryout, catering and a party room. It's open until 10 p.m. on Saturdays, and the library card takes 15% off, up to $5. The $5 cap means anything above about a $33 order earns the same discount. Shoeless Joe's is a family-run sports bar and grille that the Macchitelli family has owned and operated since 1989. Its Saturday kitchen serves until midnight, which makes it the stop for a late-show crowd. The card takes 10% off the food bill. Alcohol is excluded, and the discount can't be combined with other offers.
Muggs-N-Manor, a bar and grill at 437 S. Addison Road, keeps the same 2 a.m. Saturday close as Shoeless Joe's. The offer there is $10 off a purchase of $40 or more. For a table of three or four, that's the biggest dollar discount among the restaurants on the list.
Three offers that need a different day
The rest of the list takes some planning ahead:
- Addison Historical Museum, 135 W. Army Trail Blvd. The museum is open Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., plus the second Saturday of each month from March through December, noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 28 is the fourth Saturday, so to pick up the free branded item before Nov. 30, go on a weekday. The museum first opened to the public on July 4, 1976.
- Addison Bank and Trust, 114 E. Lake St. The bank's location page lists weekday and Saturday morning hours but also says the location is temporarily closed. Call before you count on this free branded item.
- Love Notes Events. This is a wedding DJ, officiant and MC service that also does corporate-event entertainment and photo booths. It's based in Roselle, serves Addison, and has been running since 2022. Book a wedding or event, mention your Addison library card when you reach out, and the Guest Experience package is free: a QR-code guest photo gallery and a live reception slideshow, valued at $295. In dollar terms it's the largest offer on the list. It only applies to a booking, though, so it starts with an email, not a walk-in.
A Nov. 28 route, in order
- 9:00 a.m. Bring pumpkins and any used cooking oil to SCARCE, 800 S. Rohlwing Rd., then browse SCARCE-LY Used Books & Records before noon.
- 10:30 a.m. AddiZone on North Addison Road for a bowl or a coffee before its listed 1 p.m. close.
- 11:30 a.m. Head east on Fullerton. Stop at First American Bank before 1 p.m., then pick up the dog treat at House of Paws and Plants.
- Evening. Catch a show at the Marcus Addison Cinema with the popcorn offer, plus dinner at Aurelio's or Shoeless Joe's next door on West Lake, or at Muggs-N-Manor on South Addison Road.
The library's calendar picks up again about two weeks later. Photos with Santa runs at the library on Sunday, Dec. 13, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Each family gets a digital photo and a print, and registration is required. Before that, the Addison Park District has Pictures With Santa on Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., and its Polar Express trip leaves from the Itasca Train Station at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5.
Knowing which corner of town does what at which hour is how I price homes here too. If you're curious what your place on Lake Street, Fullerton or anywhere else in Addison would sell for this winter, Francesco Campobasso will put together the numbers block by block. Get Your Free Home Valuation.
