Fall Crawl – A Girl’s Shopping Weekend in Downtown Glen Ellyn is a four-day celebration of grand openings, creative demos, wine tastings, birthday celebrations, trunk shows, special shopping and dining promotions and the Ten Thousand Villages Annual Fair Trade Rug Sale Sept. 15-18.

Sept. 14 

Annual Girls Nite Out 

4-9 p.m. 

Wilder Mansion, 211 S. Prospect Ave., Elmhurst 

$10 

The Wilder Mansion’s 3rd Annual Girls Nite Out will have you feeling spoiled, pampered and prepared to do tons of tasting, shopping and indulging. Presented by Breakpoint Coffee and sponsored by Yelp, this event will be featuring wine tasting, small bites, art, shopping, giveaways, 5-minute massages and more. The event will feature more than 50 retailers, gourmet food vendors and live music. Tickets will be sold at the door.

Sept. 14-Oct. 12 

Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America 

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday 

Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St., Naperville 

$12 for adults, $10 senior citizens, $8 children 4-12 years old, free for Settlement members, Naperville residents and children 3 and younger 

As ‘Hamilton: An American Musical’ hits the Chicago stage, Naper Settlement is celebrating Alexander Hamilton’s history. Through a traveling exhibit featuring reproductions from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and the Library of the New York Historical Society, learn how this visionary and founding father helped to shape the America we live in today. The show will also feature Revolutionary War era artifacts from the collection of Naperville residents Todd and Hillary Andrlik. The Alexander Hamilton exhibit will be at Naper Settlement through Oct. 12. Free with paid admission. For more information, call (630) 420-6010.

Sept. 15-Sept. 18 

Fall Crawl Shopping Weekend 

Business hours 

Downtown Glen Ellyn 

Free 

Fall Crawl – A Girl’s Shopping Weekend in Downtown Glen Ellyn is a four-day celebration of grand openings, creative demos, wine tastings, birthday celebrations, trunk shows, special shopping and dining promotions and the Ten Thousand Villages Annual Fair Trade Rug Sale. The weekend kicks off 11 a.m. Sept. 15 with a fashion show luncheon at A Toda Madre, 499 N. Main St.  Tickets are $30. Visit www.downtownglenellyn.com and learn more about all the planned events.

Sept. 17 

Craft Beer Fest 

12-1 p.m. VIP event; 1-5 p.m. general admission  

Elmhurst History Museum, 120 E. Park Ave., Elmhurst 

$50 general admission, $65 VIP, Designated driver, $20 

The 2nd Craft Beer Fest will feature more than 30 craft/microbreweries, live music, snacks and more. Festival participants must be 21 and over. The event is a fundraiser for the Elmhurst Heritage Foundation and Rotary Club of Elmhurst. For more information, call (630) 833-1457.

Sept. 18 

Renaissance Quintet  

3 p.m. 

St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lincoln and Maple streets, Lombard 

Free-will offering 

The tenth season of St. John’s Lutheran Church’s Artist Series presents the Renaissance Quintet in a program entitled “Sounds of the 20th Century,” featuring the music of such varied composers as Beach, Debussy, Gershwin, DeFalla, Korngold, Shostakovich, Prokoviev and Britten. The program will be a musical journey against the backdrop of technological, political and cultural changes of the 20th century. Listeners will be taken to the jazz era, World War I Europe, the Golden Age of Hollywood and Stalinist Soviet Union before arriving in the late 20th Century U.S. A reception will follow, during which the glass art of Sandy McLain will be on display and available for purchase. For information about the Artist Series, call (630) 629-2515.

Sept. 22 

Downtown Wheaton Culinary Walking Tour 

5:15-8 p.m. 

Downtown Wheaton 

$60 

Join fellow foodies on a culinary walking tour featuring Downtown Wheaton restaurants. The tour will visit Tasting DeVine at 5:30 p.m. for a wine and cheese pairing; Emmett’s Brewing Company at 6:10 p.m. for a signature dish or appetizer (smaller pairing) with alcohol pairing; The Ivy at 6:45 for a signature dish (smaller portion) with wine pairing; and Kilwin’s at 7:20 p.m. for dessert. For more information, call (630) 510-5131.