All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Progressive Henry Wallace ran for president in 1948 on a platform that advocated an end to the Cold War (he thought domestic fascism was more dangerou...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 27, 2014
2:00pm
A former employee of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence E. Shepard specialized in residential architecture and was an artist and landscape engineer. He desi...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 24, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
America is a country built by thinkers on a foundation of ideas. Alongside classic works of philosophy and ethics, however, our presidents have bee...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 17, 2014
6:30pm
Nobody expected much of Sergio Leone’s 1964 Italian Western A Fistful of Dollars – not even its young American star, Clint Eastwood, who saw...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Chicago architect George Washington Maher was a giant of the Prairie School movement, whose buildings are treasured by communities lucky enough to...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of th...
Signature Event
Monday, June 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
World War II veteran Dick Cole, 98, joins Park University professor Dennis Okerstrom for a discussion of the 1st Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton knows the wonders of our oceans and the weird and wondrous creatures that call it home. She also reco...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
6:30pm
Thirty years ago Eddy Harris took a solo canoe trip down the Mississippi River. The result was the acclaimed Mississippi Solo: A...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 11, 2014
2:00pm
Two American originals—baseball and musical comedy—meet in this 1955 fantasy which updates the Faustian legend to the modern American base...