The Schaumburg Card Show returns to the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg on Sunday, October 4, 2026 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, with free admission, free parking and more than 100 dealer tables. This is one of the longest-running sports card shows in the northwest suburbs — it operated for years as the Rolling Meadows Sports Card Show before moving to the Hyatt — and it remains the default monthly meeting point for the Chicago hobby north of I-290.
The 8:00 AM start is not a typo, and it matters. Schaumburg regulars show up early on purpose. Dealers trade among themselves in the first thirty minutes, the sharpest raw vintage moves before nine, and by ten o'clock the room is at full volume. If you are hunting something specific, being in line at 7:45 AM is not overkill.
Over 100 tables produces a genuinely deep floor. Sports cards dominate: baseball, football, basketball and hockey from 1950s vintage through current-year releases. Expect complete and partial sets, wax boxes from the 1980s and 1990s, star rookies, inserts, numbered parallels, and long runs of commons in dime and dollar boxes. Chicago demand shapes the inventory — Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks material is everywhere, and hockey does better here than at most Chicago-area shows. Graded slabs from PSA, SGC and BGS fill showcases. Beyond cards, dealers carry autographs, memorabilia in all sports, unopened wax, and a full range of supplies: sleeves, top loaders, one-touches, boxes and binders. Trading card game vendors bring Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and One Piece singles and sealed product, though sports is the clear center of gravity.
Admission is free and parking is free — an unusual combination for a hotel show, and one of the reasons attendance holds up month after month. There is no VIP tier, no advance ticket and no early-entry upcharge; everyone walks in together at 8:00 AM.
The Hyatt Regency Schaumburg sits at 1800 E Golf Road, directly across from the Olive Garden at Woodfield Mall and just west of Route 53. That puts it minutes from I-290, I-90 and Route 53, reachable from Arlington Heights, Palatine, Hoffman Estates, Elk Grove Village, Roselle and Streamwood in fifteen minutes or less.
Who should come: everyone, but especially set builders, vintage collectors and anyone who wants selection. A hundred-plus tables means you can compare the same card across four or five dealers before committing, which is exactly how you avoid overpaying. Families will find dollar boxes and free entry. First-timers should walk the whole room once before spending anything.
Sellers should know this show well: dealer table information is handled directly by Joe Slusarz, and multiple regulars actively buy collections. If you are bringing cards to sell, sort them by sport and year first.
Bring cash in mixed denominations, sleeves and top loaders, a rigid case for slabs, and a written want list. The show repeats monthly on Sundays, so if October does not work, November 15 and December 6 are already on the calendar.