Fall Bulb Festival at Chicago Botanic Garden is October 5-7 from 10am to 4pm (the 5th is for members only). Features 225+ varieties of daffodils, tulips, crocus, and specialty bulbs.
There are 20 vendors, live music, wine, beer and cider, jams, herbs, vegetables plus you can buy bulbs. For kids there is a straw bale maze, the gourd mountain and leaf rubbing, a leaf hunt, make mini-scarecrows.