Library News

We are pleased and excited to invite everyone to the 23rd Black Writers Conference . This year it is a free and virtual conference that brings writers and artists together to celebrate creativity. "Quite a time for Loving" is the theme of the conference and much needed in this COVID environment...

The Field Museum's first ever 'Chief Curiosity Correspondent," Emily Graslie, is joining us over Zoom on October 22nd for a fantastic program about prehistoric life, curiosity, and more! Click HERE to register!

Evanston Public Library Executive Director Karen Danczak Lyons is on the latest episode of The Check Out podcast from Evanston Public Library. Karen has been at the helm of the Library since 2012 after nearly two decades in the Chicago Public Library system. In this conversation, we explore how the...

Palatine Library District was recently awarded a Public Library Construction Act Grant in the amount of $1,841,568.05 from the Illinois State Library, a division of the office of Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian. Palatine Library applied for this grant in April 2020, after the...

The Arlington Heights Memorial Library (AHML) produced an original video series in celebration of Banned Books Week 2020 (Sept. 27-Oct. 3) and the freedom to read. Each of the three videos featured a banned book or titles and the voice of an AHML staff member or community partner sharing their...

What happens when a 93-year-old tries ice climbing for the first time? Find out on October 21 at 2:00 pm, in this live virtual event hosted by Chillicothe Public Library. Íeda Jónasdóttir Herman lived a full and active life into her nineties, fueled by the philosophy that it's never too late to try...

The course of justice rarely runs smooth, and the path to women's suffrage in Illinois was no exception. Explore the trail with anthropologist Jeanne Schultz Angel in a virtual event at 6:30 p.m. on October 19, hosted by Chillicothe Public Library and produced in part by Illinois Humanities Road...

With funding from the Illinois State Library , the Oak Park Public Library has launched an initiative to distribute new, free books to community members who are most in need of resources. Recipients will be able to keep these books forever and use them to build their home libraries. This new grant-...

In keeping with the spirit of 2020, Chillicothe Public Library will host "In Times of High Strangeness," an epic live virtual event with paranormal researcher Dustin Pari. His A to Z list of strange things—Aliens, Bigfoot, Chullachaqui, and beyond—features cryptid creatures, phantom spirits, and...

The Oak Park Public Library has partnered to support our local middle schools as they implement anti-racist curriculum . We support educators in this work to "disrupt societal and historical inequities arising from institutional racism and white supremacy in our schools," which also aligns with the...