The Evanston Public Library (both the Main Library and Robert Crown Branch) will be closed this Thursday, April 25, for a Staff Development Day.
While attempting to fly this weekend, Bibli, the peregrine falcon chick hatched in a scrape atop the Main Library this Mother’s Day took his second tumble this season off his perch. He was not injured in his fall, but because he’s been delayed in his development since hatching, the experts at the Chicago Peregrine Program […]
The Evanston Public Library will be closed on Monday, June 19, in honor of Juneteenth, but we’ll be celebrating the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. throughout the month of June. Join us at the library and throughout Evanston for events celebrating Black freedom and self-determination: Sip & Paint: Juneteenth Edition. Make […]
Ted Williams III, the playwright and producer of 1619: The Journey of a People says that his goal in bringing this musical to the Evanston community is to “educate, entertain, and inspire” the public. And he does just that. The show uses gripping visuals and music from a variety of genres to take the audience on […]
The Evanston Public Library is commemorating Pride Month throughout June with programming for all ages that celebrates and explores issues relating to the LGBTQIA+ community, plus an evolving art exhibition at the Main Library. Pride Unites Us, presented by Evanston Pride, Evanston Made, and the Evanston Public Library will run through June 20 in the […]
Evanston Public Library’s History Book Group just celebrated its 5th Anniversary. We meet every two months, so we can look back on a total of 30 books we have read and discussed since our first meeting in March 2018. To celebrate, we just voted on our favorite books, and the result is this Top Ten […]
EVANSTON, ILL. — 1619: The Journey of a People, The Musical, written by Ted Williams III, comes to Evanston this spring for two performances, a special presentation for Evanston Township High School faculty and students this Friday, May 19, and a public performance at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, as a part of the City of Evanston’s Juneteenth […]
EVANSTON, ILL. – International Compost Awareness Week is May 7-13, and the Evanston Public Library is celebrating with compost-related events for all ages at the Robert Crown Branch Library. What is composting? Composting is the controlled process of turning organic materials, like your food or cardboard scraps, into mulch through natural decomposition. The result is […]
EVANSTON, ILL. – On the whole, Evanston residents live 82 years – several years longer than the national average – but that big picture number obscures major inequity. For example residents in Evanston’s historically Black Fifth Ward live 6.5 years less, on average then their neighbors in the 7th ward. This is a result of […]
EVANSTON, ILL. – This month, the Evanston Public Library launches the official celebration of its sesquicentennial – 150 years ago, on April 15, 1873, Evanstonians voted to fund a free public library. The vote was unanimous – 337 for, 0 against. It levied a tax of $2 per $1,000 of property tax value annually. And […]
A nesting pair of peregrine falcons has been spotted on our eaves…and they’re expecting! Watch our new brood all spring on our YouTube FalconCam.
