Upcoming Events

Want to talk about this year's One Book, One Freeport selection, Dandelion Wine, and don't have a regular book group you attend? Come on down to the library and give us your thoughts.

Slowing Down with Amy Tan

The big questions that we have all asked at some point in our lives – “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “What does it all mean?”, and so on – are often addressed in the realms of philosophy, poetry, and psychology.

Paint cheerful dandelions with instruction and guidance from Victoria. 

REGISTER for this event. Please register each person separately.

No registration required! Join our therapeutic recreation program designed especially for individuals with disabilities. Engage in crafting, chatting, and fun activities!

Baseball's Alternate Universe, The Negro Leagues

An overview of the history of Negro Leagues baseball in America, covering the 1920s-50s.

Presented by Kevin Kenney

A ghoulish killer brings a Boston bookseller’s list of perfect fictional murders to life—that is, to repeated, emphatic death.

Reading Outside the Lines: Paratext in Landmark American Literature

Ty Rohrer’s presentation “Ray Bradbury: Waukegan’s Influence on a Visionary” tells the story of the life of the author from when he was growing up in Waukegan to his prolific career.

Join us for an enlightening evening as we screen the powerful film "Race to Freedom," followed by a critical discussion session.

Though Illinois entered the Union as a free state in 1818, slavery continued to exist within its borders for decades.

Cheerful sunflowers made out of bottle caps on a picket fence background - welcome, Spring!

No registration required! Join our therapeutic recreation program designed especially for individuals with disabilities. Engage in crafting, chatting, and fun activities!

Songs of the Illinois Freedom Road is the powerful new musical performance featuring the songs, stories, and struggles of the Illinois Underground Railroad.

You've seen him as Houdini, and as Edgar Allen Poe - now come see Duffy Hudson portray Audie Murphy, a true American hero if ever there was one.

Everyone welcome for this book group. No registration! Pick up a copy of the book on the 2nd floor of the library.

Easy Innocence: When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat.

No registration required! Join our therapeutic recreation program designed especially for individuals with disabilities. Engage in crafting, chatting, and fun activities!

Penzler’s latest anthology of the year’s best mystery stories, guest edited this time by Sara Paretsky, brings together short fiction weighted toward character-driven tales awash in psychological thrills.

No registration required! Join our therapeutic recreation program designed especially for individuals with disabilities. Engage in crafting, chatting, and fun activities!

They met when they were teenagers.

No registration required! Join our therapeutic recreation program designed especially for individuals with disabilities. Engage in crafting, chatting, and fun activities!