Week Calendar

Join us with your budding bookworm as we learn about the world through songs, stories and crafts.

Join us for stories and songs each Tuesday! For kids ages 2 to 4 and their caregivers.

Join us for open play time where caregivers and tots can come to interact and play each week.

Join Communication Junction for a 30 minute interactive Sign and Sing Storytime. This story time is great for children ages 0-5 and is created around a theme, filled with stories, songs, movement and bubbles.

Are you just getting started with researching your family?  Have you been researching and need some help?  

 Join us for music and movement and stories for kids 2 to 5 years old. 

Bring your little one for sensory play fun! Parents are required to stay with their child. Suggested ages for the play items available are 2 to 5.  Monthly on the first Wednesday.

Drop in to create a pressed flower bookmark in honor of Book Lover's Day.  We'll provide the materials; you provide the creativity.  No experience necessary. 

January 2 — It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

February 6 — The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai

Get out of the heat and into the a/c and chill out while painting with ice! 

The ice contains food coloring so please come dressed for and prepared for a mess!

Registration required. 

Join us for a monthly craft designed for adults with intellectual disabilities. Please register under the name of the adult doing the craft. Caregiver attendance is required for participant support.

Do you like to play board games and don't have anyone to play with?  Join us on the 2nd Thursday of each month  from 2-4 p.m. meet new people and play some classic games.

The funniest, no-pressure, freestyle craft event for all ages. Everyone has access to a pile of ridiculous craft and art materials to use.

Join us at Main for “Dungeons & Dragons at the Library.”  
The program is open to ages 13 and up.
Doors open at 2pm and game play starts at 2:30.
Feel free to bring snacks!

Monthly on the 2nd Saturday

Come chill at the McClure Branch after school by quietly meditating with lo-fi beats playing in the background. 

Busy schedule? Tired of eating out for lunch everyday? Want to eat healthier? Join Chef V for a meal prep class and gain easy techniques and recipes that you can help you to start your meal prep!

Come in to cool off while you taste test some different root beer floats in celebration of Root Beer Float Day.

Enjoy the back to school season with us! Each Tuesday we will do back to school art crafts. This week we will be creating customized pencil cases! Registration is encouraged. 

Join us to paint a planter and take home soil and a house plant to pot when you get home! Supplies are limited so reserve your spot online or by calling (309) 497-2600. 

Each Friday in August, in celebration of American Artist Appreciation Month, we'll be focusing on a different American artist to learn a bit about and create our own artwork in their style. Be sure to dress for a possible mess.

Ages 12-18. Come and learn how to use simple physics to build a trebuchet - a medieval siege weapon similar to a catapult in the hands-on STEAM program. Supplies and space limited, registration required.

Join us for a free online yoga class with one of the top yoga instructors on YouTube, Yoga with Adriene. 

Doors open at 5:00 and video starts at 5:15. 

Continue to learn the basics to crochet and the many things you can make with these skills. Supplies and space are limited so please register by signing up online.

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss a historical fiction title and be transported back in time. 

Learn about cultures and languages spoken around the world with this special storytime series.  

Originally from Normal, IL, Adam Larson is an American saxophonist, composer and author. Adam began playing saxophone at the age of 11 and hasn't stopped.