The Graue Mill and Museum is open Tuesday - Sunday from 10:00am - 4:30pm.

Our Master Gardeners (from the University of Illinois Extension) will present a FREE out-of-doors lecture on MONARCHS - OUR NATIVE BUTTERFILES AND THE POLLINATOR FRIENDLY PLANTS GROWING AT THE GRAUE MILL on Sunday, July 30th at 2:00pm.

The Frederick Graue House is always available for event rentals. After you have read all pertinent information under the "Graue House" heading, please email WTempleton@grauemill.org to check available dates

We are busy booking group tours and field trips in 2017 concluding on Sunday, November 12th. Please call the Mill at (630) 655-2090 to make field trip and group tour reservations.

One summer morning in 1852, Fred Graue entered his mill and turned the wheel that opened the sluice gates outside. Water from Salt Creek rushed into the millrace and the wooden waterwheel began to turn for the first time. It would turn the machinery that would grind grain for the next seventy years.

Today, Graue Mill is the only operating waterwheel gristmill in the Chicago area.