Color Shift Potions Gallery (January 2025)

Teens made the most amazing color-shifting potions using food coloring and mica powder in a water-rubbing alcohol solution, then decorated their bottles with various labels and sealing wax. These make great props for parties, or D&D, or cosplay! Lots of ideas and recipes and designs can be found here. Check out some of the potions we made!

Girls Click Bricks Gallery (October 2024)

Going on RIGHT NOW in Program Room #2 – the inaugural session of Girls Click Bricks, our new LEGO building program for girls in middle and high school. Today’s project is a candy dispenser and participants are already well on their way to completing their builds! Do you <3 LEGO? Join us next time! (Register for Girls Click Bricks events online, or call the library to sign up – 847-669-5386).

Weird (and Wonderful) Animals: Alpacas Gallery (August 2024)

In case you missed it, we had an alpaca at the library in August, 2024. Rainier came out to visit from Magic Meadows Alpacas (Wonder Lake) along with his caretakers, Sally and Mike Kazanis. Folks who attended the program got to meet and interact with Rainier (he was a real star!) and also learned a lot of cool facts about alpacas. Rainier is a Suri alpaca and has the softest fleece. He made some real … Read more