Romeoville Repair Café

Toss it? No Way!

“Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.” Learn more about the international movement at repaircafe.org. 

The Office of Sustainability registered to the international Repair Café registry because Repair Café’s and their service to communities support our vision of a sustainable future, one with circular economies. These systems protect people, skills, and materials so that they are utilized to their potential and never tossed for something only because it is new.

 RepairCafe at Romeoville Linktree

Join us for the next Repair Café! 

October 19th, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

JJC will host a Repair Café twice a year at Romeoville Campus during Earth Month in April and Campus Sustainability Month in October. We are located at 1125 W 135th St, Romeoville, IL 60446.

Supporting People, Planet and Prosperity

People. Repair Café is a modern approach to encourage item repair, but also to teach and share repair skills with members in the community and to the next generation.

Planet. JJC's Repair Café is a community-driven initiative to help keep fixable items out of landfills, where skilled volunteers inspect and repair various items, including electronics, clothing, ceramics, jewelry, and more.

Prosperity. Repair Café promotes an essential sustainability concept called Circular Economy, where materials and items are maintained in consumer spaces for longer, reducing money and materials needed to purchase new items.

Visit our Café to have your items repaired, and to learn skills from volunteers and in group sessions, or just hang out with the community and watch sustainable documentaries and videos!

Repair stations include:

• Electrical appliances
• Clothing & textiles
• Furniture, toys, and other wireless items
• Bicycles & carts
• Simple repairs with glue, string, and tape
• Jewelry

Get Involved | Volunteer with us!

Have a knack for fixing? Join our team! Repair skills have been slowly fading, and the Café is a place to utilize your own skills to help others and to teach people who don't know much about repairs—maybe they will be fixing some of their own items by the end! Volunteers can be professional artisans, hobbyists, or general handypeople/craftspeople; there are no requirements beyond experience and the desire to be a part of the project.

Don’t think you can be a fixer? We could still use your help! We need volunteers to do all kinds of tasks, big and small, to help the event run smoothly. Contact the Office of Sustainability by email Ashley.klinder@jjc.edu or call (815) 280-2644 for more information.

Sustainability at JJC Linktree

Sponsor Romeoville Repair Café

By donating to JJC's Repair Café, you can help provide essential support, allowing us to continue the mission by maintaining the necessary tools, organizing events, and fostering a culture of reuse, contributing to a more environmentally conscious and resilient community.

Donate to the JJC Repair Cafe

Thank you to JJC Alumni Relations, State Senator Rachel Ventura, Resource Recovery & Energy Division Will County Land Use Department, the Richardson family, Jacqueline Ashcraft, Linda Elaine, Aidan Fahey-Medycskas, and Sue Bustin for your donations.