Adult Craft Club: Backpack Travel Kit
Stop by Gage Park to make a miniature travel kit for your backpack! Customize yours for a music festival, first aid, beach or hike. Materials will be provided. For adults 18+ ¡Acércate a Gage Park para armar un kit de viaje en…
Open Play Time
Join us for a drop-in open play time! We have fun, educational toys and books available for self-directed play. For kids 0 to 5 with their caregivers. AccessibilityNeed sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call…
Learn to Play Mahjong
Discover the fun of Chinese Mahjong! This beginner-friendly program will teach the basics of gameplay, tile identification, and simple strategies. No experience necessary, and all materials will be provided. Light refreshments will be available. Accessibility Need sign language interpretation or other…
Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026)
In the near future, astronaut Ryland Grace wakes from a coma afflicted with amnesia. He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming…
English Class for Beginners With Erie House/Clases de Inglés Para Principiantes con La Casa Erie
Join us in the Popular Library at the Harold Washington Library Center for an English language class led by Erie House. In each class, you will learn basic English and about the library’s English study resources such as Cell-Ed. Erie House is…
Reading Came First Book Club
Join us for Reading Came First, a book club that explores the powerful connections between literature, music, identity, and culture. Hosted by rapper, librarian, and Rapbrary founder Roy Kinsey, this monthly gathering creates space for thoughtful conversation about books that…
Film Screening: Rosewood (1997)
Join South Chicago Library for a screening of Rosewood. Jon Voight and Ving Rhames star in this powerful dramatization of events preceding the obliteration of a black Florida community by a mob in 1923. A white woman’s falsified story of…
Computer Basics Class
Are you interested in learning how to use a computer? Join us at King Branch for a basic computer skills class in which we use the online resource Chicago Digital Learn to build our digital literacy. Feel free to bring…
Teen 3D Collage
Stop in to create a 3D collage to adorn a small tin with cute and colorful tiles, letters, and objects.For teens 13 to 19.AccessibilityNeed sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request…
Kids Craft: Origami Bookmarks
Join us in creating origami book marks for all your reading adventures! For kids 6 to 13. AccessibilityNeed sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request accommodations. Requests must…