All Library locations will be closed Friday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Movie Screening
Signature Event
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 25, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Thirty years ago, a peaceful demonstration by university students in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague set off a chain of events that effect...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2019
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the Sundance Film Festival-winning drama...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...
Signature Event
Friday, October 25, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
The Young Friends of the Library host a night of Halloween-season cinema after hours in the Central Library. Join us for some scares...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 20, 2019
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the acclaimed 1997 emotional drama...
Signature Event
Friday, September 20, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
This animated arachnopalooza spins a web of multidimensional adventure. Young Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) gets the radioactive spider bite...