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Early DuPage Township Election Records Now Available Online!
The Bolingbrook Historic Preservation Commission has spent the last three years working tirelessly to inventory and catalog its collection of…
Five Black Heroes & Sheroes You Should Know
Every February, we expect to see a spotlight on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. These…
WWI Military Movies You Won’t Want to Miss!
November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, and Veterans Day is on November 11. Our current Veterans Day commemorations…
Come See “Freedom: A History of US” Traveling Exhibit (Fall 2022)
Freedom: A History of US, a national traveling panel exhibition organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will…
Stacks to the Future: Juneteenth
One of the true bummers about the fabric of reality and the nature of spacetime is that time travel isn’t…
Speculative Fiction and Black Authors
“Speculative Fiction” is a broad term meant to denote a specific type of literary work, one that broadly overlaps with…
New Traveling Railroad Exhibit for January–February 2022
Exciting news! We are hosting a traveling exhibition of Hidden Histories of the Transcontinental Railroad beginning Monday, January 10 through…
Inspirations: S.D. Nelson
We are featuring a second author and illustrator in an Inspirations kit! Stop by the Children’s Services Desk and pick…
Josephine Baker: Activist, Entertainer and WWII Spy
When The Third Institute shared that this month’s Roots “shero” would be Josephine Baker, I was super excited! What a…
Book Review: Kamala’s Way by Dan Moran
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, history was made when Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in as Vice President of the…