Week Calendar

For all ages with a caregiver.

Build confidence speaking English and ask questions about everyday life in the U.S. Practice reading and writing. Level testing is required. Please text the ELL Coordinator Tania Hess at 815-263-8145.

For ages birth to 23 months with a caregiver.

This club is for students with limited English experience. Includes leveled listening, speaking, reading and writing practice. Must take a placement test and place below ESL intermediate level courses.

For ages birth to 23 months with a caregiver.

This club is for students who already use English in daily tasks but need to keep improving. Includes leveled listening, speaking, reading and writing practice. Attendees must take a placement test.

For all ages with a caregiver.

For ages 3 to 5 attending independently (without caregiver). 

Geared to families with children ages 8 and up. 

For ages 2 to 3 with a caregiver.

For ages 2 to 3 with a caregiver.

Learn and practice English in an informal setting. Read books together, discuss current news or explore other topics. This club is open to all and presented on Zoom. You will need a computer, tablet, or phone to access Zoom.

Build confidence speaking English and ask questions about everyday life in the U.S. Practice conversations you would use at a school, store, doctor's appointment and with neighbors. Learn how to use the Library and use the internet.

This club is for students with limited English experience. Includes leveled listening, speaking, reading and writing practice. Must take a placement test and place below ESL intermediate level courses.

This club is for students who already use English in daily tasks but need to keep improving. Includes leveled listening, speaking, reading and writing practice. Attendees must take a placement test.

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In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother—a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old—leading him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the

Sonya Huber grew up in New Lenox and is now an English professor at Fairfield University.

Girls Who Code is a national organization that is on a mission to close the gender gap in computer science.

This program is intended for those in grades 3 to 8. 

We will provide the artistic supplies and the technology and you will provide the creativity in this weekly open crafting and exploration session. 

This program is intended for children ages 6 to 10.

AAAARGH, matey! Gather your crew for a swashbuckling good time playing pirate games and making your own "treasure".

The Library Board of Trustees is holding a public Truth in Taxation hearing. 

The Board of Trustees will meet for their regular monthly meeting. The public is welcome to attend.

Ages 6 to 11. Let your creativity show. We supply the materials and you supply the artistic touch. 

Discuss writing prompts, craft, style and current works in progress with fellow authors and writers.