Using Inkscape software, you will be guided to design a short saying or name to be engraved onto a roasting fork using our laser. All materials will be provided. Priority to P

Help the library purchase books for the next year! Service hours available.      

Secrets of the Spakkar by Elisa Reid. Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman. The author examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women, the deep-seated cultural s

Grades 1-5 Join our code master and think like a computer while programming with cool games and activities! Perfect for beginner coders. NOTE: There is only one session this

Kick off the start of summer with Chicagoland’s most charismatic Elvis tribute artist, Hugo Colin. Enjoy a dynamic performance of the legendary Elvis Presley that will take you bac

Ages 2-6 w/adult Come enjoy a fairytale followed by a craft.

Chicago’s Historic Motor Row District, is home to the largest, intact, early “motor colony” in the United States.  Primarily located on south Michigan Avenue, it was designate

Youth volunteers grades 6-12 needed to help with Kids Corner. Email Mrs. Bisanz, ajbisanz@phpl.info if this is your first time volunteering at the library. 

Calling all Kindergarteners! If you like to hear books with sound effects, then this is the book club for you!

Grades 4 & 5 Pick up this month’s mystery kit and book at the Circulation Desk starting April 15. Read the book, then come to discuss and have FUN! We will be reading The

May's Book: Dust Child In 1969, sisters Trang and Quỳnh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sài Gòn. Once in the big

Join Mrs. Julie for stories and so much more!

Learn to take better photos with your Android smartphone, the camera you carry everywhere using functions that are already built into your device! Recommended for beginners. Partic

This modest blues band launched in the mid-1960s, achieved monumental success in the mid-1970s and still makes headlines today. Using interview and performance video, we’ll trace t

Learn to weed a vinyl design that was cut on our Silhouette Cameo 4 and iron it onto a neoprene can koozie using our Cricut heat press. All materials will be supplied. Preference t

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Join professional storyteller Anne Shimojima, a third-generation Japanese American, as she shares the moving story of her

Grades 4-8  Make an adorable mushroom craft with clay.     

Come to enjoy Ukrainian stories, a chance to socialize, and more! * Приходьте, щоб насолодитися українськими історіями, нагодою поспілкуватися та багато іншого!  

Drop by the Lab in the library with your own knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, embroidery or other portable project and socialize with others who share similar interests. All experi

Illustrator and art teacher Terri Murphy will celebrate summer in a colorful way, showing how to use watercolors to capture the energy of a Koi pond. All supplies will be provid

Learn to weed a vinyl design that was cut on our Silhouette Cameo 4 and iron it onto a neoprene can koozie using our Cricut heat press. All materials will be supplied. Preference t

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in t