Upcoming Events

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

Calling the Easter-Springtime Bunny! We're making a cute bunny decoration for your holiday or Spring decor.

All supplies provided by the library. *FREE*

Please register each person separately. Registration opens 3/15/2025 at 9 a.m.

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

Art and Adventures with Author/Illustrator Dan Santat

Join ChessPort!

No experience necessary.

Chess sets are provided.

Free, no registration.

All current, former, rusty, and new players welcome!

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.

Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. REGISTER: https://bit.ly/ILP_MatthewDesmond

Paint a paver stone to look like a cute owl for use in your garden, on your porch, or even as an inside doorstop (beware your toes!)

Registration required; please register each participant separately.

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

Join ChessPort!

No experience necessary.

Chess sets are provided.

Free, no registration.

All current, former, rusty, and new players welcome!

They met when they were teenagers.

Adults and teens, drop-in to make art from yarn and a canvas with other decorating supplies available for your piece. You don't have to make a heart like we did for our example. Color your world with original art!

Decorate a towel with a one line drawing, then color in or around that drawing. We did a cat for our example, but there will be many other one line options available.

Celebrate cold-drink season with colorful, citrus-y, rope coasters. Make a set to take home. (If you are replete with coasters, you could turn them into a decoration, too.)

REGISTRATION. 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!

Create a decoration for the 4th or any summer day. Make it firework colors or red-white-n-blue.

FREE. Registration required. Please register each person separately.

Registration will open June 15th at 9 a.m.

Join ChessPort!

No experience necessary.

Chess sets are provided.

Free, no registration.

All current, former, rusty, and new players welcome!

Make a boring rock pretty with resin + ?

Take an armchair tour through the heyday of Illinois' small towns, when the culture of Main Street was the culture of America. Our speaker has visited and photographed all 2,400 of the small towns and villages on the state road map.

Join ChessPort!

No experience necessary.

Chess sets are provided.

Free, no registration.

All current, former, rusty, and new players welcome!