Upcoming Events

Give your brain the workout it needs to stay sharp! Participate in interactive brain-teasers, games, and puzzles that get you thinking. Coming together and learning new things is good for your noggin! Recommended for older adults.

New job? Dream vacation? New home? Better health? Stella is back to guide you through the process of making a 2026 vision board!  Creating a vision board will help you priortize goals, values, and intentions.

Grab your crochet hook, knitting needles, or sewing kit and join other crafters for some social stiching! Show off your WIP (work in progress), get some tips, or just drop in.

Start the New Year With Meditation 

This class is geared towards functional strength and mobility to improve longevity and decrease the risk of injury.

Let's dish about cookbooks! Prepare a recipe of your choice from a cookbook and bring to share. Copies of the cookbook will be available one month prior to the event at the Circulation Desk.

Join M. Colleen Klimczak as she helps you set your 2026 up for success with goal setting. 

Grab your crochet hook, knitting needles, or sewing kit and join other crafters for some social stiching! Show off your WIP (work in progress), get some tips, or just drop in.

Únase a nuestro grupo de conversación en inglés para practicar sus habilidades de conversación.

Take a photographic journey through all seven continents with Dr. Michael S Lewis.

Join EP resident Ana Soto to create a cute little house made from a mason jar and some twigs.

Hands-on class to improve your typing skills.

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Teens and adults are needed to help out at the Stacks Social Club meetings.  Your tasks include assisting young adults with disabilities with crafts and activities, setting up, and cleaning up!

Join us anytime from noon-4pm to make handmade cards for kids who are hospitalized.  Children, teens, and adults are welcome.  We'll send the cards to the Chicago organization Cards for Hospitalized Kids (

Grab your crochet hook, knitting needles, or sewing kit and join other crafters for some social stiching! Show off your WIP (work in progress), get some tips, or just drop in.

Sometimes, life can be stranger than fiction. Join this monthly book club to discuss nonfiction titles. We will be meeting both in-person and online via Zoom to discuss upcoming books for 2026. 

Want to learn to dance and increase your confidence, coordination, health, energy, and achieve your goals? Join professional dancer, Elaine Gotfryd-Noonan, as she dances you into shape and teaches dance fundamentals.

This class is geared towards functional strength and mobility to improve longevity and decrease the risk of injury.

Learn how to create folders and organize your files.

Grab your crochet hook, knitting needles, or sewing kit and join other crafters for some social stiching! Show off your WIP (work in progress), get some tips, or just drop in.