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By Ilana Toch

Congratulations to our advisory services team! The team has been named the 2025 recipient of the Readers’ Advisory Service Award by the Illinois Library Association.

The world feels incredibly complicated lately. Maybe it's the constant connection, the endless doomscrolling through disquieting headlines.

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” 
― Bilbo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings

I want to gratefully acknowledge Gene Griffin, who recently stepped down from our Board of Trustees after 10 years of dedicated service. Gene was appointed to the Board in January 2015 and was elected to the Board in 2017 and 2023.

Art has been integral to our library since the 1960s.

On June 18, 1865, just days after the Civil War had ended, roughly 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. With them was Maj. Gen. Gordan Granger, dispatched to bring Texas under control.

We have a new game this year for summer reading. It’s designed to test your knowledge of Skokie!

Because access to technology is a necessary part of our lives, we all benefit when technology disability inclusion is a priority.

We are partnering with the Greater Chicago Food Depository to provide free summer lunches for kids 18 years and younger. 

The Asian continent, South Asian subcontinent, and Pacific Islands make up incredibly rich and diverse ethnic, geographic, and culinary areas.

Are you interested in starting or joining a book club? Or are you a long-time member looking for ways to shake things up?

"The Last Council of the Potawatomies, 1833," Lawrence C. Earle, artist; from the Chicago History Museum

History is a funny thing. We are taught to trust the narratives we learn in school. We are taught that the words in our history books contain the whole story. But narratives are controlled by the hands that compose them.

First Black Family Buys Home in Skokie