Events
Do you want to learn English? Do you want to practice speaking and understanding English and improve your communications skills? Join our conversation group with Literacy Chicago and improve your ability to communicate.
This group focuses…
LEGO® fans rejoice! Join other fans and enthusiasts as you create, challenge yourself and share ideas for your next LEGO® creations.
Build as far as your imagination takes you or build using our challenges in this fun, drop-in event…
Calling all young makers, crafters, and do-it-yourself (DIY) types! Each session we have a themed project for you to create. We bring the supplies; you bring the creativity!
For kids 6 to 13.
How to AttendRegistration is preferred but not…
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Learn the skills you need to alter your clothes, from cuffing, re-sizing, adding embellishments, and more. This month we'll be cutting and hemming shirts to create a better fit or a cropped look.
For high school teens ages 13 to 19
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Are you in grades 5 to 12? Do you want to hang out with friends and eat pizza in the library when everyone else is gone? Do you want to make a haunted house craft, watch a movie on a projector and play fun games? If so, Vodak After…
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Create a mini masterpiece with acrylic paint, paintbrushes and a 4x4" canvas.
This grab and go kit is available at the 8th floor reference desk during library hours for the month of November or while supplies last.
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Visit Kelly's Adult Reference Desk for a spice kit to take home. Each kit will include a sample of the highlighted spice, as well as recipes and information on the spice's cultural and historical significance. A selection of additional…
Do you enjoy working on puzzles? Join Chicago Bee branch staff for fun and conversation as we try to complete a puzzle each week. Feel free to bring your own puzzle if you'd like.
For Adults 18 and up!
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Join us for a monthly Saturday Story Time! We’ll read books, sing songs and play together.
For kids 0 to 5 and their caregivers.
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Join us for an open art studio. Explore your creativity and work along with other artists. Supplies are provided but you are free to bring your own.
All skill levels welcome!
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Forward Chicago is hosting a Repair Cafe every 2nd Saturday of the month.
In this program, Forward Chicago volunteers can repair jewelry, sew clothes, and repair general stuff too depending on the item. Volunteers are unable…
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Are you interested in learning about the benefits of organic herbs? Please join the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch and Tia Monet every other month as Tia explains why herbs are a good tool for a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, Tia will…
Bring the family to these fun-filled and lively story times.
For kids 0 to 5 years with a participating adult.
How to Attend
In order to provide a fun and safe program, Family Story Time is limited to 40 participants (kids and…
Únase con Miss Jessica para una hora de cuentos y canciones en español. También puedes quedarte después para disfrutar de actividades sensoriales.
Para edades de 2 a 5.
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Join us for stories, songs and fun for the family!
For kids 0 to 5 and their families.
AccessibilityNeed sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email…
Returning books or picking up movies for the weekend? Drop in for a craft that you can make in the branch or grab and go to make at home later! Available while supplies last.
For ages 3 and up.
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Join Miss Evelyn to discuss Paint It Out! by Ethan Long while enjoying milk and cookies. This book club is for beginning readers at a Kindergarten to 2nd grade reading level. Pick up the book at the children's reference desk.
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Join other aspiring authors this fall for Write at CPL, a series of workshops presented by our partners at Story Studio. This workshop will focus on Micro Memoirs and is led by Meghan Lamb.
We all have amazing stories to tell!…
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Mending Basics
Ripped your pants and don't know how to fix it? Our presenter Vieve will be teaching mending basics! Registration required - only 6 spots available.
For teens 17 to 25.
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Join us for this all-ages early literacy story time. We have music, rhymes and bounces for the babies and a longer story for the older ones. Story time is approximately 30 minutes, with free play and social time following the program.
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