Holiday – Draw Along!

Grades: K-8 — Registration is required. Draw your own holiday-themed cards to send to your favorite family members!

Book Buddies

Grades PreK-8 — Registration is required. Pair up with an older child and take turns reading to each other and follow up with a book discussion, drawing together, a snack, and a dance party!

Event Series Scales-N-Tales Storytime

Scales-N-Tales Storytime

Ages 0-5 with Caregiver — Limit 20 — Registration is required. Start your Friday morning off at the library with a fun storytime all about animals. A new animal each week! Some bilingual Spanish. We are currently limiting our storytime capacity to 20 people total.

Creative Cocoa

Large Meeting Room 10311 Grand Ave, Franklin Park, IL, United States

Grades 3-12. Create and enjoy your own custom hot cocoa.

Holiday Centerpiece Craft

This program is full. To be added to the wait list, please contact the Info Desk at 847-455-6016 x229.   Adults only - Limit 20 - Registration is required Join Peggy Garvin of Garvin Gardens to make your own seasonal centerpiece with fresh evergreens and lovely holiday accents. All materials will be included. Please bring […]

Event Series Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga classes are wonderful movement opportunities for any adult with limited mobility who wants to increase and maintain flexibility. Participate virtually with Susan Wilkens of Dancing Cranes Yoga in Riverside through Zoom or by phone. Registration is required. We will email you the Zoom & phone information the day before the program date. Don’t […]

Cookie-Craft Family Storytime

Registration is closed. Please check the Calendar for more great programs! FYI: There is a waitlist for this event. Please arrive on time or someone else may take your spot! Come to this special holiday family storytime where we will read stories, sing songs, and decorate cookies!

ASL Club

All Ages — Registration is required. Learn American Sign Language! Our mission is to come together as a community to learn American Sign Language (ASL) to bring awareness and communicate to individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and/or Non-Verbal. Play games and have fun while you learn the ASL alphabet and simple words and phrases!

Tail Waggin’ Tutors

Grades PreK-5 — Registration is required. Come and practice your reading skills with Bailey, the Certified Therapy Dog! Be prepared for a kiss and cuddle from the 2 year-old Newfoundland!

Illinois Libraries Present: Midwest Baking with Shauna Sever (Virtual)

Virtual Program — It will be offered via Zoom. Join us for a conversation with Shauna Sever, author of Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland, as she celebrates baking this holiday season. Sever is a cookbook author, TV and radio contributor, and a daughter of the great midwest.  Her fourth book, Midwest Made, […]

Popular Page Turners Book Club

Join us for the Popular Page Turners Book Club for an evening of engaging conversation discussing books in our favorite genres and areas of interest! We will be discussing City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau.   Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. […]