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LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Not a lot of photos this week. Feel free to send in your favorite Critical Grind moments in our discord channel # photo-drop. Ash, Dana, and Rudy spent the week in Indianapolis for Gen Con gaming convention. Ky, Rubix, and Sean stayed back at the cafe to be open for all of you! Sainan Books and Wolf Den Gaming joined us on Sunday for a creator Pop-Up! Shaun & Saphira braved the storms at Shorewood Crossroads Fest. Shoutout to our cafe friends we ran in

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Not a lot of photos this week. Feel free to send in your favorite Critical Grind moments in our discord channel # photo-drop. LAST CHANCE to bring in new, unwrapped toys for the annual Christmas in July Toy Drive with the Shorewood Kiwanis. Thank you to Theatre 319 from Plainfield for coming out to tell us about their upcoming production of Puffs and their theater workshops. Some players, families, and painters having a great time this weekend. Thank y

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Not a lot of photos this week. Feel free to send in your favorite Critical Grind moments in our discord channel # photo-drop. Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Bring in new, unwrapped toys for the annual Christmas in July Toy Drive with the Shorewood Kiwanis. Friday was crazy busy! We had the Lorcana Prerelease, 2 Pathfinder Society tables, 3 RPG reservations, a big creator group, some Magic players, and we had t

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Not a lot of photos this week. Feel free to send in your favorite Critical Grind moments in our discord channel # photo-drop. Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Bring in new, unwrapped toys for the annual Christmas in July Toy Drive with the Shorewood Kiwanis. Don't forget you can always order any of our toasts on Gluten Free Bread. We're currently taking pre-orders for the new Daggerheart book, Hope & Fear, comin

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Not a lot of photos this week. Feel free to send in your favorite Critical Grind moments in our discord channel # photo-drop. Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Bring in new, unwrapped toys for the annual Christmas in July Toy Drive with the Shorewood Kiwanis. Pick up your copy of Flip 7 today! Keep an eye out for our next After Hours event, July 15th. A Paint Class workshop. Shoutout to our friend Lindsey from No

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe & in the community! Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Our dear friend and player, Nick V is a talented woodworker and he surprised Dana to tears with his very generous gift of a handmade gaming table. (Please use a coaster!) Dana got to be around 30+ women entrepreneurs this past week at the She Means Business Luncheon at JJC, inclu

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe & in the community! Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Dana and Shaun spent some time at Origins Game Convention this past week. Even ran into a familiar face or two. Brought home a few new games for the library. Kid's Summer D&D Club is a hit with our Wednesday crews. Still a little room to sign up for July. We always love seeing ou

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe & in the community! Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! The storms brought in some beautiful skies Kid's D&D Summer Club kicked off this past week. There is still room to sign up for the July Sessions. Ky got to play Tea Witches with Lavender and their cousin visiting from Arizona! Ash got silly with the selfies and experimented with

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe & in the community! Check out our favorite Lemonade flavors for the summer, or make your own! Good turnout for Game of Tones, Music Bingo. Save the date for the next one, July 2nd. Dana had a table at the Plainfield Cruise Nights. Those run every Tuesday through August. We'll be back July 14th & August 18th. Thank you everyone who came out to the Magic Pride Night tournam

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe. We had a fun RPG Night this passed week. Fabulous Bingo was a hit, raising money for Grundy Eunoia Wellness Center We had a birthday celebration with a Daggerheart cake. Book Bedazzling went great for our May after hours. We are introducing a new Smoothie flavor for the summer, Tropical!! ANNOUNCEMENTS: We are excited to announce that we are a part of the Southside Perks

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe. Dana and some regulars to to learn some new games RPG Night saw quite a bit of Daggerheart action Friday Night we had some fun with Magic Players, RPG players, Kid's RPG Night, Creator Meetup AND a Lorcana Tournament. Congratulations to Sean for getting first place and pulling an enchanted from one of the prize packs. Ky experimented with a new smoothie flavor. Banana Sm

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Here are some great photos we got from the last week of goings on around the cafe. Great turnout for Creator Meetup. Lots of creative people stopped in throughout the week. We had some crocheting, knitting, painting, and diamond art. We love seeing people be creative in our space. Lots of gamers this week! The name of the game. We welcomed back Tegan from Ten Cups Tarot on Tuesday for an evening of Tarot Readings. Congratulations to Mas for the great E

UPDATES LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: In case you weren't aware, Critical Grind is a great place to get some work done. During the day, the Expansion Room usually has a couple people working at the tables and body-doubling for each other. Sometimes I even leave my office and set up. Sunday, Mother's Day, we welcomed Brooke's Cakery to the cafe for their pop-up! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to support them. We restocked this week on dice and TCG sleeves! ANNOUNCEMENTS: SAVE

UPDATES ALL PREVIOUS LORCANA ITEMS (EXCEPT BOOSTER PACKS & SINGLES) ARE CURRENTLY 25% OFF! Moms & Grandmas Play for FREE on Sunday, this Mother's Day. LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Ash worked really hard on our decorations for our Alice in Wonderland theme this month. In case you missed it, we're celebrating our UN-Birthday. we don't often get to celebrate our anniversary so we've decided to celebrate our 6 month as an Unbirthday with a Wonderland theme. We had a great time at Fabu

UPDATES Our hours are permanently changing to: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9am - 9pm Wednesday: 9am - 3pm Friday & Saturday: 9am - 11pm Sunday: 9am - 6pm LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS: Last week was busy but we didn't get a lot of photos. We got in the new Character Packs for Daggerheart. They're $19.99 each and have everything you need to play various characters. Dana was set up at Shorewood Glen Senior Living Community on Saturday talking about the importance of playing games and s

UPDATES Our hours are permanently changing to: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 9am - 9pm Wednesday: 9am - 3pm Friday & Saturday: 9am - 11pm Sunday: 9am - 6pm LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS : So much fun this past week! Board Game Night on Tuesday we played Solar Gardens and Sea Salt and Paper. RPG Nights we're full. Joliet Pride Network's monthly Gayme Night came out on Thursday. Our Magic Prerelease and Blood on the Clocktower were very busy (so busy we didn't get photos). Dana did a pop

UPDATES ((thinking of making these permanent... what do we think??)) LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS : Thank you to everyone who came out this past week! We wouldn't be here without all of you. A special shoutout to the customers who made us these beautiful origami roses. I'm not sure if you'll see this but they're so pretty and they made our day! Did you stop by on Sunday to see Andrea of Sowers Creations and all her adorable little critters. ANNOUNCEMENTS : SAVE THE DATES! Monday,

UPDATES ((thinking of making these permanent... what do we think??)) LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS : We had so much fun with everyone visiting us last week for Spring Break. Thank you to everyone who stopped in! We had a blast at Game of Tones music Bingo on Thursday. Join us for the next one on May 7th. Dana also got the chance to GM for an employee engagement event at a local small business, BKS - Business Knowledge Systems. If anyone can think of any small business interested in

UPDATES ((thinking of making these permanent... what do we think??)) LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS : Not a lot to post about last week. It was kinda slow for being Shorewood's Spring Break. We're hoping this week will be a little busier while some of the other schools are on Spring Break this week. As a reminder, we're closed this Sunday for Easter. ANNOUNCEMENTS : We are officially selling TCGs on TCGPlayer.com . Check out our online store! We're also currently taking Pre-orders in

UPDATES ((thinking of making these permanent... what do we think??)) LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS : T.B. Sweet Creations came in and did a Cake Decorating class with us. We had some people drop in for our Coloring Meetup (3rd Mondays)! Our TCG Night was busy with Lorcana and our Magic the Gathering Two-Headed Giant Commander Tournament. Creator Meetup was a fun and chill time. And we got new Grimbeard Leather products in this past week! ANNOUNCEMENTS : This has been here for a whil