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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.

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.

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

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

Community input is a core element of how library staff develop and deliver services for all ages. 

What do librarians and gardeners have in common? They both know the importance of weeding! In the yard, removing weeds helps keep gardens healthy and tidy.

Walking through the library, you may have missed Hilda Rubin Pierce’s painting Chicago River. It’s in the hallway next to the Cosmos Room. We’re highlighting this beautiful work now in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month.

If you’ve attended library events, chances are you’ve been in one of our event spaces, such as the Cosmos Room, Radmacher Room, Petty Auditorium, or Carolyn A. Anthony Business and Community Center.

Swans is probably the most recognizable piece of art in the library, and as a 1,000-pound sculpture in the middle of the building, it’s difficult to miss.

Like many of the works in the library’s permanent art collection, View from McCormick was a donation from our community, and this one has stronger connections to our community than most.

If you ask people to describe a public library, many would mention books, storytimes, computers, or research.

If you ask people to describe a public library, many would mention books, storytimes, computers, or research.

If you ask people to describe a public library, many would mention books, storytimes, computers, or research.