Ingredients: a muddy, scrappy, western town. Add Potter Palmer, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, John G. Shedd, Daniel Burnham. Stir in wheat, corn, cattle, hogs, railroads, and Paris fashions. And who was at the center of it all? Marshall Field. Historian RJ Lindsey portrays Field, the greatest merchant in American history.

In-person and phone registration starts February 3rd for Norridge and Harwood Heights residents with valid library cards. Online registration for everyone starts February 10th.