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Stepping into Illinois History Presentation
2025-05-08 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Illinois is filled with fascinating historical sites. Discover the ancient Native American city at Cahokia Mounds, the seat of the French government at Fort de Chartres, and Camp River DuBois where Lewis and Clark spent the winter before their Voyage of Discovery. See how early Illinois residents lived in Bishop Hill and Nauvoo, and visit the homes of Presidents Lincoln and Grant.
This presentation is hosted by Nancy McCully.

Adult DIY TO-GO Ceramic Flower Truck PEOTONE Pick up
2025-05-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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This craft will open for registration in late April. This craft pick-up location is Peotone Library.
Must be 18+ and have a valid library card. You will receive an email when your craft is ready for pick. Please pick up within 5 days.
Ceramic Truck with Flowers, paints and paint brush.

Adult DIY TO-GO Ceramic Flower Truck MONEE Pick up
2025-05-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Monee Park District, 5130 W. Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449
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This craft pick-up location is Monee Park District. The address is 5130 W. Court Street, Monee, IL 60449 and the hours of operation are 8am-4pm.
Must be 18+ and have a valid library card. You will receive an email when your craft is ready for pick. Please pick up within 5 days.
Ceramic Truck with Flowers, paints and paint brush.

Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desmond Live Online
2025-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | IL
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Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the award-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Desmond was named one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate” by Politico 50 in 2016.
His research focuses on poverty in the United States, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is the author of the acclaimed The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation and co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang. Moore is the recipient of Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Community Media Award among many others.
Her work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region.
This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com

Computer Basics One-on-One
2025-05-14 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-21 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-28 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-04 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-11 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-18 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-25 11:00 - 11:30, 2025-07-02 11:00 - 11:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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A library staff member will devote a 30 minute time slot on Wednesdays 11 am – 11:30 am to help with your computer needs. It can be help with the basics of the computer, setting up your email account and sending attachments, learning how to use the Internet or a Word Document; you decide!
*The library does not diagnosis or repair electronics

Adult Puzzle Swap
2025-05-19 09:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-30 09:30 - 19:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Tired of completing the same puzzle over and over again? Ready for a new one? Come to the Peotone Library District Puzzle Swap to keep your puzzle collection fresh! Bring a 500+ piece puzzle without any missing pieces to trade for one that’s new-to-you! Spread the word so there will be more puzzles to choose from.

Adult Monday Movie Matinee
2025-05-19 11:30 - 13:30, 2025-06-16 11:30 - 13:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Join us for a movie, snacks and drinks will be provided!

Summer Reading Registration
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-07 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Summer Reading Registration officially begins this week! Come into the library to get signed up! There are programs for all ages. Details about each program will be given at registration. We hope to see you there!

Adult Summer Reading Begins!
2025-06-02 09:30 - 20:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Stop by the library to pick up a book log to start reading. For every six books you read you will be given a drawing ticket to win one of our great prizes. The adult program runs from June 2nd thru August 30th, 2025.

Adult Take and Make Craft
2025-06-02 09:30 - 2025-06-07 15:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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No registration required. While supplies last.
Summer wooden ornament. Will come with twine, paint and paint brush.

Book Bingo
2025-06-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Join us for bingo! Winners get to take home books, audio cd’s and movies from our bingo cart.

Tuesday Night Book Club
2025-06-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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The club will be discussing How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior.

Mystery Book Club
2025-06-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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The club will be discussing The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell.

Mennonites of Southern Illinois Author Presentation
2025-06-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Registration Required. This program is in person.
Local author Jane Flynn will be at the library discussing her photographic journal Mennonites of Southern Illinois.
Offering a glimpse into a world largely misunderstood by mainstream society, this book documents the period of eight years that Jane Flynn practiced with Mennonites in two different Southern Illinois communities: Stonefort, and Mount Pleasant in Anna. Despite her status as an outsider, Flynn was welcomed and allowed to photograph the Mennonites in their homes, making applesauce, farming, and beekeeping.
Escaping persecution from the Catholic Church in Europe, the Mennonites arrived in America in 1683, settling in what is now Pennsylvania. Today, they live in almost all 50 states, Canada, and South America. To reflect the Mennonites’ manual-labor lifestyle, Flynn processed her black-and-white photographs by hand and hand-printed them in a dark room. The imagery explores the Mennonites’ labors, leisure, and faith by documenting their homes, places of work and worship, and the Illinois Ozark landscape they inhabit.

Adult DIY TO-GO Ceramic Succulent Craft Kit Peotone Pick up
2025-06-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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This craft will open for registration in late May. This craft pick-up location is Peotone Library.
Must be 18+ and have a valid library card. You will receive an email when your craft is ready for pick. Please pick up within 5 days.
Ceramic Succulent Craft Kit. Kit will include ceramic planter w/base, artificial succulent, artificial moss, paints and paintbrush.

Adult DIY TO-GO Ceramic Succulent Craft Kit Monee Pick up
2025-06-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Monee Park District, 5130 W. Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449
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This craft will open for registration in late May. This craft pick-up location is Monee Park District. The address is 5130 W. Court Street, Monee, IL 60449 and the hours of operation are 8am-4pm.
Must be 18+ and have a valid library card. You will receive an email when your craft is ready for pick. Please pick up within 5 days.
Ceramic Succulent Craft Kit. Kit will include ceramic planter w/base, artificial succulent, artificial moss, paints and paintbrush.

Adult Summer Paint a Canvas Night
2025-06-12 17:30 - 19:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Registration Required. If the class is full, ask to be added to waitlist at the front desk in case of cancellations.
Join us on a summer evening to discover your inner artist and create a painting on canvas. This class will be led by local artist Tracie from “Painting with Tracie”. All skill levels are welcome, Tracie will provide step by step directions and the canvases will have pre-traced designs. All materials will be provided. This class will have a wait list after registration is full in case of cancellations. Please let the front desk know if you try to register and it is full and you would like to be added to the waitlist.

History of Aviation in Will County
2025-06-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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Join Sandy Vasko from the Will County Historical Society to learn about the history of aviation in Will County. The program covers the first few decades of aviation and discusses balloon ascents, aviation races and the the airplane designed in Coal City.

Tuesday Night Book Club
2025-07-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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The club will be discussing The Briar Club by Kate Quinn.

Mystery Book Club
2025-07-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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The club will be discussing The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton.

Adult Take and Make Craft
2025-07-07 09:30 - 2025-07-12 15:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 North First Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
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No registration required. While supplies last.
3D 4th of July Wooden Star Ornaments. Will include paints, paint brush and twine to hang.
