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It’s that time of year! We want you to design and create your best (or maybe worst) ugly holiday sweater or T-shirt. Grab whatever you have on hand at home and start crafting. Submit a photo of your finished masterpiece…

Thanksgiving is the beloved fall holiday sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas. While some folks are already putting up their holiday tree and gleefully wrapping presents, an army of sweater-wearing, flannel-layering, harvest-loving home chefs are prepping their pantries and organizing a…

Are you craving some SPOOKtacular Halloween movies? Join Melissa and Dennis as they trick-or-treat through the library to find some sweet scary movie recommendations. Let us know “witch” is your favorite—don’t ghost us!

As with so many things this year, Halloween will be a little different. The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control have published safety guidelines, suggestions for alternative activities and warnings about what not to do this year. Haunted…

Ya llegó el mes de octubre y a muchos les gusta leer libros con criaturas de terror que pueden ser muy divertidos. Ponte en el espíritu de halloween con estos libros nuevos que tenemos en la biblioteca.

“For those that got away, the answer was ‘wherever.’ Initially, some of them went to Antwerp, and then all over. The correct answer was ‘elsewhere,’ because those who stayed and said, ‘we are modern, secular Austrian citizens, many of us…

Attention teachers and youth leaders! Did you know the Children’s Services Department has an Ellison Die Cut machine available for you to complete special projects and bulletin boards? All you have to provide is the paper and the manpower! Please…

It’s that time of the year again… when the world is filled with mistletoe, candy canes, presents and for an avid movie aficionado like myself, holiday movies. Here are my top five favorite Christmas movies—the ones I am always sure…

Después de hablar tanto sobre la familia y las tradiciones navideñas y cocinar con los estudiantes de Bolingbrook en BookTalks en noviembre de 2017, hablé con mi hermana acerca de la tradición de mi tía Patsy para hacer ñoquis caseros,…

Todos los años, el sábado después del Día de Acción de Gracias, algunos amigos míos comparten sus historias culturales de Checoslovaquia en el Museo de Ciencia e Industria. La sociedad checa de Moravia baila, pone música y representa viejas tradiciones…