Events
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Regin Igloria, visual artist and founder and has been leading Community Binding workshops throughout the Chicagoland area (and beyond) since 2010. The workshops introduce bookbinding skills and techniques to participants in a collaborative…
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Join us for this rad screening of Whip-It (2009). Rock on!Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with this quirky sports drama about an ex-beauty queen (Elliot Page) who gives up her tiara for roller derby, to the dismay of her mother…
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Do you want to get rid of a few books, or are you looking for your next great read? Stop by the Bucktown Book Swap. Bring one or more used books (up to 1 bag), and then take as many books as you'd like.
Please do not bring…
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We're watching movies filmed in Chicago this summer! This month, join us for a screening of the film Widows (2018) directed by Steve McQueen.Four Chicago women who have lost their spouses to crime and are saddled with the fallout of…
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Please join us for a screening of Hoppers (2026).
Animal lover Mabel uses clever new technology designed to "hop" human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals to communicate with beavers, uncovering mysteries within the…
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Going back to school can be stressful, so come decompress at the library and create something amazing using our woodburning tools! Anna our Teen Services Librarian will be leading this activity so it will be safe and fun. Make a coaster, a…
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Head into the weekend with a round of bingo at the library! One Friday a month, we'll bust out the bingo balls and give away some small prizes to our winners!
Adults 18 and up only.
AccessibilityNeed sign…
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Join us in August to discuss a classic Chicago book, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
Told in a series of vignettes--sometimes joyous, sometimes heartbreaking--Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of…
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Join us as we learn landscape painting with Chicago artist Seanice Lenay. This program will focus on how to paint a landscape using acrylic paint. This class is designed to provide beginners with the skills and knowledge needed to take…
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Join us for a thrilling screening of the film Red Eye (2005), starring Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, directed by Wes Craven.
On a night flight to Miami, a hotel manager (McAdams) becomes a pawn in a plot to assassinate the…
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Author and Ambassador Jaroslav Olša Jr. will present his book Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles, about Czech American writer Miles J. Breuer, a pioneer of science fiction who imagined self-driving cars decades before their…
