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Elk Grove Village Public Library Celebrates Comic-Con

The Elk Grove Village Public Library will host its second Comic-Con event on Saturday, September 28, 2019, from 11 AM - 3 PM. The library will feature local food trucks, ten celebrity cars in our Celebrity Car Show, crafts, a Mobile Escape Room, a Stranger Things themed scavenger hunt, a Horror/Sci...

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"Bartram’s Garden: In Words and Wood" exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden's Lenhardt Library

Bartram's Garden: In Words and Wood exhibition features three handcrafted artist boxes and objects, made from the wood of fallen trees at Bartram's Garden, in combination with original poetry. Free talk and Special Event: Sunday, October 6, at 2 p.m. with Artist Claire Owen and poet Beth Feldman...

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Joliet Public Library Becomes FamilySearch Affiliate

The Joliet Public Library is now an affiliate library for the genealogical website, FamilySearch. Library visitors have access to about 400 million extended records available only to affiliated sites. This content is only available when logging in to a free FamilySearch account and using one of the...

Local History section of the Ottawa Street Branch

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Princeton Public Library receives $195,000 from the Georgia Fay Estate

The Princeton Public Library received a generous donation from the Georgia Fay estate in the amount of $195,000. Library board president. Carolyn Schafer and trustee, Lani Swinford were on hand along with director, Julie Wayland to accept the generous donation on Wednesday, September 25 at Perry...

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Medal honored with ILS Distinguished Alumni Award

Carole Medal, the executive director of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin, Illinois, has been named the 2019 Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni winner. The ILS Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an ILS alum who is making or has made an outstanding contribution to...

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Vernon Area Library working to turn the page on climate crisis

Managers and staff at Vernon Area Public Library have been working to reduce the environmental footprint of operations in cost-effective ways. A team of employees from across the library took a close look at supplies and practices and recommended changes that could be implemented under the existing...

"Grounds to Grow On" box for recycling used coffee pods

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Engage with RAILS at Fall Conferences

RAILS at ILA Conference, October 22-24, Tinley Park Convention Center RAILS Reception Tuesday, October 22, 5:30–7:30 pm., Pebble Beach Room, Tinley Park Convention Center Join RAILS and other library colleagues after a long day of conference-going on Tuesday, October 22, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., in...

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Meet author Paul Hendrickson; hear about "Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright"

Enjoy an evening with author Paul Hendrickson as he discusses his new book Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright . Hendrickson will be at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL, 60301, on Tuesday, October 8, from 6:30-8 pm. From the award-winning and...

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Restorative Community Practices: Building Stronger Families, Schools, and Communities

You are invited to the Oak Park Public Library's second annual restorative justice conference. This year's theme is "Restorative Community Practices: Building Stronger Families, Schools, and Communities." This conference will be held for three consecutive days, on October 4-6, at the Main Library,...

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CENSUS 2020: WHY IT MATTERS

Since 1790, the U.S. Constitution has required that electoral districts be periodically adjusted or redrawn to account for population shifts every ten years. Census data reveals where populations have risen or fallen throughout the country and is used for congressional representation as well as...

MARILYN A. SANDERS, U. S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

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