Upcoming Events

Explore your creative side by making your own necklace in this workshop designed for young people in grades 3-8.  Please register. ...

EPCHS Chess Team players will teach the fundamentals of the game. All levels of play are welcome. ...

Join us for stories, songs, and rhymes in English and Spanish.  Únase con nosotros para cuentos, canciones y rimas en inglés y español.   ...

Join us for four weeks of morning arts and crafts!  For kids ages 2-5.  Registration required.  ...

Students in grades K to 5 select a book and read it aloud to a high school reading buddy. Reading Buddies assist with homework, play games, and make crafts. ...

Have a fun family evening breaking out your best dance moves as we play the popular Just Dance video game on our Nintendo Switch. This is an all-ages family event. ...

Kids in preschool through 5th grade are invited to craft with us!  Sign up for each week you would like to join us. March 5:  Fingerpainting Rainbows March 19: Butterfly Painting April 2: Bubble Wrap Painting April 16: Flower Cr...

Watch The Lorax (1972) and create your own planting to take home and plant outside! ...

Join us for four weeks of morning arts and crafts!  For kids ages 2-5.  Registration required.  ...

Students in grades K to 5 select a book and read it aloud to a high school reading buddy. Reading Buddies assist with homework, play games, and make crafts. ...

Can't make it to storytime during the week (or just need more storytime in your life)?  Join us for Saturday Stories!  We'll have stories, songs, rhymes, and fun, most appropriate for children ages 2-6, but all ages are welcome.  No re...

Kids in first through third grade can grab some popcorn and practice their reading skills.  We'll all take turns reading a few fun stories together each month! ...

Third through 5th graders meet monthly to talk about books with other book-loving kids, eat cookies, and do a fun activity!  Books will be available for check out at the Circulation Desk by the first of each month. March 28: Gregor the Overla...

Help us kick off this year's Summer Reading Challenge, Sweet Summer, with a parking lot party! We'll have a petting zoo, frozen custard from Culver's, the Science Heroes will bring their dry ice science station, and Rolling Video Games Chicago is bri...

Enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and fun for you and your baby!  For babies from birth through 17 months with a caregiver.  Please register.  There is no Baby Bookworms on July 1. ...

Enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and fun for you and your baby!  For babies from birth through 17 months with a caregiver.  Please register.  There is no Baby Bookworms on July 1. ...

Learn to make a bracelet out of pop tabs.  For kids entering 3rd through 5th grade.  Please register. ...

Toddler Time is an interactive story time program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregivers. Please register.  There is no Toddler Time on July 2. ...

Help us decorate our windows for summer reading!  Make puffy paint window clings in the shape of cupcakes, cookies, and other sweets.  When they dry, we'll display them on the windows in the Children's Department. ...

Toddler Time is an interactive story time program for children ages 18-35 months and their adult caregiver.  Please register.  There is no Toddler Time on June 19. ...

Explore food science and make ice cream in a bag.  There will be a whole lot of shakin' going on!  ...

Preschool Storytime combines stories and songs for kids from 3-5 years old.  Please register.  There's no Preschool Story Time on July 4th. ...

Start your summer off right by getting some new-to-you books at our book swap! Bring in your gently used YA or children's books (in good condition) and trade them for the same number of books. Lots to choose from! All books should have covers, all pa...

Join us for outdoor stories at 10 am in our beautiful parks!  In the case of active rain, storytime will be held at the Library. Saturday, June 8:  Duffy Park (92nd and Millard) Saturday, June 22:  Yukich Fields Storywalk ...