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• Events - Seed Starting Workshop

  Join Olga of Luscious Leaves for a hands-on Seed Starting Workshop and
  learn the basics of growing your own herbs, veggies or flowers. 

  Each attendee will be able to choose from a variety of plants,
  plant and label their seeds on-site, and head home with a reusable...;

• Events - Wilderness Living Skills Workshop

  Spend 3 days camping in the hardwood forests of Illinois where you will learn to make use of the landscape around you. This is an exciting class with lots of hands-on practice in the essential skills of wilderness survival. Participants will learn to make rope, light fires with fire-by-fr....

• Events - Trivia Night - General Knowledge

  Trivia will begin at 7, doors open at 6:30.

  Gather your friends or family, come up with a creative team name, and show off your trivia skills!
  Teams are limited to four people, and only participants will be allowed in the room.
  Exciting rewards await, including gift ca...>

• Events - PBS Band Live at Willow Creek Farm

  Join us at the farm on August 23rd from 6 to 8 p.m. for a great evening with PBS Band, an acoustic group playing all your favorite sing-along hits. There’s no cover charge, and we’ll have a cash bar available. Doors open at 5pm. Bring your friends and enjoy a fun, relaxed nigh...!

• Events - Teen Lounge

  Looking for something exciting to do after school?
  Middle and high school students can stop by the library for activities and fun.

   

  Children's Services | 217-403-2000

• Events - The Farms: Bluebell Festival

  Celebrate spring at our Bluebell Festival on May 2-4! This festive community event will feature our visitor-favorite Plant Sale Fundraiser (May 2-4)?? Spring Market (May 3), live music, workshops, food (food trucks + Greenhouse Café), drinks and more! Come for a day or make a weeke...!

• Events - Art of the Resistance: A Community Conversation Ex

  Throughout history, artists have responded to turbulent times by creating work
  that speaks to the experience of the times in which they live. Today is no different.
  This exhibition utilizes various mediums to depict wide-ranging themes of identity,
  peace, trauma, authorit...m

• Events - KJ & Co: Grand Reopening

  KJ & Co is moving to a new storefront location!
  Just around the corner from our current store.
  We are so excited to show off our new space and
  hope to see you for our grand opening event!
  More fun details to come!!

• Events - The Science of Sourdough

  Join us for the first science on Tap of 2026,
  where experts break down complex science in a way
  that’s accessible, engaging, and fun!
  
  This event is open to the public.
  No outsid.../div>

• Events - Bat Factory Presents: Prom of the Living Dead

  Bat Factory's Goth Prom is back!
  Spring is coming, but flowers aren't the only things emerging from the soil! .../div>