274 events

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Apna Ghar: Our Home Budlong Woods Health and Science 17:00:00 – 20:30:00 Escape the Museum Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Board Game Night Austin Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Fall Fest Lincoln Park Zoo Seasonal & Holiday 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Community Repair with Bevel & Kerf Woodworking Portage-Cragin DIY 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Fall English Language Learning (ELL/ESL) Course / Curso de Inglés de Otoño Little Village Education 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Club Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CHAnon Presents: Hidden Gems of Little Village Little Village Arts & Culture Multiple times AI Made Simple: Easy Tools for Everyday Life Chicago Bee Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 3D Printing for Kids Vodak-East Side Computers and Technology Multiple times Albany Park Bread Club Albany Park DIY 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pulitzer on the Road Exhibit: A Guided Tour Harold Washington Library Center History and Genealogy 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Youth Poetry Workshop West Town Writing and Poetry 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Novel November: Teen Creative Writing Series Lincoln Belmont Writing and Poetry 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM ISAC Discovery Tours The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum Tours 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM Art in the Library: Families Together Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Rogers Park Education 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM Tabletop Game Night Northtown Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM The Scary Squad: Tween Advisory Board Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Meditation for Stress Reduction & Better Sleep Edgewater Health and Science 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Ambient: 3D Printed Forms with Redemptive Plastics Obama Presidential Center Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Day of the Dead Altar Preparation at Vittum Vittum (Harriet Elizabeth) Park Seasonal & Holiday 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Parachute Play Harold Washington Library Center Story Time 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM English Language Learning (ESL/ELL) Course / Curso de Inglés Humboldt Park Education 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Chicago's First Responder Yoga at Ridge Ridge Park Health and Science 2:45 PM - 4:45 PM YOUmedia Takeover Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Story Time Sulzer Regional Story Time 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Gamers' Zone: Teen Gaming King Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Tinker Tuesday Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Tech Lab Woodson Regional Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Collage Club Gage Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Board Games Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Teen Hideaway Brighton Park Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Quilting Austin Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Story Time at Mayfair Park Mayfair Park Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Multilingual Monday Lincoln Belmont Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time at Grano Panaderia and Cafe Grano Panaderia and Cafe Story Time 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Get Ready for Baby Harold Washington Library Center Workshops 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Pajama Story Time Sulzer Regional Story Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Coding Club / Club de Programación West Lawn Computers and Technology 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Saturday Game Day Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM ESL Conversation Cafe With Aquinas Literacy Center McKinley Park Education 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Family Fun and Fiction Story Time Austin Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tabletop Gaming Open Shop Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM English Conversation Class for Beginners Northtown Education 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Sulzer Chess Meetup Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Knit Together Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM HAS Community Counseling & Treatment Resource Desk Humboldt Park Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time with Mr. Josh Pullman Story Time 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Monday Kelly Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Chicago's First Responder Yoga at Oriole Oriole Park Health and Science 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Board Game Club Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Great Decisions Foreign Policy Discussion Group Budlong Woods Workshops 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Illuminated Youth Arts North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM TV Screening: Twilight Zone (1959) Jefferson Park Film Multiple times Open Shop Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Librarian Office Hours Chicago Bee Education 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Come Play Chess with Us Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM LEGO® Club Gage Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group West Town Education 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Baby and Toddler Story Time Vodak-East Side Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Paint and Chill for Teens Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Harold Washington Library Center Education 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Wednesday Kelly Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM After School Fun Chicago Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Learn to Play Mahjong Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Makers on 8: Artworks Studio with SAIC Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM OPC Teen Recording Studio: Certification Obama Presidential Center Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM The Artist’s Studio at the Library Obama Presidential Center Workshops 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Robotics and Coding Workshop Whitney M. Young, Jr. Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Games People Play Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Knitting Class Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Chicago's First Responder Yoga at Norwood Norwood Park Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Sensory Story Time Avalon Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Reverb Arts: Your Story Matters Kelly Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Blackstone Education 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM English Conversation Practice Group Manning Education 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM Freeform Friday Kelly Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Movie Night Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play Multiple times Spanish Conversation Group West Loop Workshops 09:00:00 – 15:00:00 Curiosity Day Camps Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Education Multiple times Wonder and Words: Family Storytime Edgebrook Arts & Culture 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Meet the Maker: Redemptive Plastics Obama Presidential Center Workshops 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM The Teen Creative Arts Collective Woodson Regional Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Chess on the Edge Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play Multiple times Edgewater Community Music Jam Edgewater Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time at the Back of the Yards Coffeehouse Back of the Yards Coffeehouse Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time at DreamCatcher Cafe DreamCatcher Café Story Time Multiple times Basic Computer Skills Help Chicago Bee Computers and Technology Multiple times Open Shop Gage Park Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Oriole Park Education Multiple times LEGO® Club Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Create Space / Espacio para Crear Back of the Yards Computers and Technology 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Learn Chess with Dave Walker Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Learn English/Aprende Inglés Chicago Lawn Education 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM Seed Library Woodson Regional DIY 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM The Silent Scribe Society: Writing Program Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Bilingual Story Time / Hora de cuentos bilingües Sulzer Regional Story Time 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM Family Story Time / Hora del cuentos con famillia Gage Park Story Time 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM Writing Circle Manning Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM English Class for Beginners With Erie House/Clases de Inglés Para Principiantes con La Casa Erie Harold Washington Library Center Education 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time Albany Park Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Toddler Story Time Mount Greenwood Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM A Stitch in Time Crochet Club / Club de Tejer Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Knit and Crochet Circle Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mixed Media Making Portage-Cragin Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Family Story Time Brighton Park Story Time 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 3D Printing Jefferson Park Computers and Technology 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Time Blackstone Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time Beverly Story Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Illinois Free Wednesday Field Museum Community Free / Free General Admission 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Baby Story Time/ Hora de cuentos para bebés Gage Park Story Time 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Game Time Portage-Cragin Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® at the Library Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Preschool Story Time Woodson Regional Story Time 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Chair Yoga North Austin Health and Science 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Book Buddy for Adults Little Village Education 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Knitting Circle Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time Canaryville Story Time 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Tinkering Time: Chess Club West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Chair Fitness Class Oriole Park Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time Bezazian Story Time 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Catrinas: Paper Mache Art Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Budlong Woods Education 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Little Learners Story Time McKinley Park Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Compassionate Children's Programming with Cruelty Free You + Me Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Story Time 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Loop Troop Crochet Club Chicago Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Preschool Story Time West Englewood Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® at the Library Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group Albany Park Education 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM 3D Modeling with Tinkercad Gage Park Computers and Technology 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Dungeons & Dragons Club Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Family Film Screening West Lawn Film 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM English Language Learning (ELL/ESL) Course/Curso de Inglés Portage-Cragin Education 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After-School Reading Practice Gage Park Book Clubs 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Seniors’ Circle: Computer Essentials Austin-Irving Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Science Club Bezazian Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Teen Game Night Clearing Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Anime Monday for Teens Chicago Bee Film 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Dungeons & Dragons Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Sesiones de GED con UIC Center for Literacy Back of the Yards Education 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sesiones de GED: Ciencia con UIC Center for Literacy Little Village Education 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Play Along Tuesdays Blackstone Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Learn Basic Computer Skills South Chicago Computers and Technology Multiple times Teen Time Rogers Park Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Spanish Conversation Group Blackstone Education 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM YOUmedia Teen Recording Studio Certification Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Tummy Time Sulzer Regional Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Pokémon Club Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Game Day Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Time Merlo Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story and Play Time Dunning Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® Club Toman Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Zumba Go Chair Fitness North Austin Health and Science 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM ESL/ELL Practice: English Conversation Group Vodak-East Side Education 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Public Speaking Practice With the WAO Toastmasters Club Wrightwood-Ashburn Workshops 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Bilingual Story Time Little Village Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® Club McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Multilingual Playgroup / 多语言游戏小活动 Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Crochet Club 4 All Greater Grand Crossing Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Baby Story Time with Ms. My Uptown Story Time 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM ISAC Museum Discovery Tours ISAC Museum Tours Free 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM Intro to Cricut Sticker Making or Heat Transfer Gage Park Computers and Technology 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Saturday Story Time Legler Regional Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Chess Club Northtown Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM ESL: English Language Conversation Practice Little Italy Education 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Novel Needles: Knit, Crochet and Stitchery Group Roden Crafts, Games and Play Multiple times Mahjong Mondays Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play Anne Frank The Exhibition Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Community 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Drop-In Art, Crafts and Play Hegewisch Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Baby Bookworms Sulzer Regional Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Zone Near North Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Tuesday Night Bridge Club Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM YOUmedia Open Shop Whitney M. Young, Jr. Workshops 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time Altgeld Story Time 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Puzzlemania Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Write About It! Writing Club North Austin Writing and Poetry 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Brain Health Tuesdays Avalon Health and Science 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tuesday Afternoon Knit and Crochet Circle Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM LEGO® Club Little Village Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Little Readers Story Time Rogers Park Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Knit and Crochet Circle Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Peace by Piece: A Fiber Art "Commuknity" Beverly Crafts, Games and Play 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Preschool Story Time Jefferson Park Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tots and Toddlers Story Time West Loop Story Time 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® Club Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Storypalooza Edgewater Story Time 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Toddler Time and Play Time Brighton Park Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Story Time Northtown Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® Club Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time King Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time at Sputnik Coffee Company Sputnik Coffee Company Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM LEGO® Club Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Teen Vibez: Crafting, Gaming and Hanging Out Chicago Lawn Computers and Technology 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Read and Sign Baby Story Time West Loop Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby and Toddler Story Time Near North Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Chess Club Blackstone Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Story Time Chinatown Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time Vodak-East Side Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Family Story Time Thurgood Marshall Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Think and Tinker Thursday's Kelly Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM [TEENS CRAFTS, GAMES AND PLAY] West Town Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Book Builders Harold Washington Library Center Story Time 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Drop-In Gaming Hours for Teens Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Mahjong Club Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Story Time Rogers Park Story Time 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM TV Screening: The Golden Girls (1985) Wrightwood-Ashburn Film 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® Night Blackstone Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tinkering Time: Little Crafters West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Make It Tuesdays Kelly Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Mother Goose at Play: Toddler and Preschool Story and Play Time Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time Greater Grand Crossing Story Time 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Family Story Time Harold Washington Library Center Story Time 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Toastmasters: MJM Speakers' Circle Thurgood Marshall Education 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Computer Literacy Class Thurgood Marshall Computers and Technology 12:30 PM - 7:30 PM Puzzlemania for Adults Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Club Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM Legendary Late Hours Field Museum Nightlife Included with admission 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Continuing Beginner Spanish for Adults Mount Greenwood Education 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Story Time Independence Story Time 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Legler Maker Lab Open Shop Legler Regional DIY 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Grab and Go: Spice Club Kit (Basil) Kelly Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Monday Evening Knit and Crochet Circle Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Preschool Story Time Chicago Bee Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Tiny Tots Story Time Chicago Lawn Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Story Time Oriole Park Story Time 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids and Tween Craft Carts Little Village Crafts, Games and Play 10:15 AM - 1:00 PM Play Day Independence Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Fall Story Time Brainerd Story Time 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Coloring for Adults Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® and More Club Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Preschool Story Time Merlo Story Time 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® at the Library Mayfair Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tuesday Story Time Wrightwood-Ashburn Story Time 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Baby and Toddler Story Time Jefferson Park Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Itty-Bitty Family Story Time Manning Story Time 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Sulzer Maker Lab: Open Shop Sulzer Regional DIY 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Crafty Kids Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Hangout North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Tales for Twos and Threes Mayfair Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time Blackstone Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Power Up Thursdays Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Tween Book Club Legler Regional Book Clubs 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Gaming: Nintendo Switch Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Harsh Readers Circle: Woodson Regional Book Clubs Multiple times Crafting Corner Brighton Park Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Mexican Train: A Domino Game Roden Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Teen Hangout, Snacks, and Games West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Douglass Maker Lab: Open Shop Douglass DIY 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM DIY Crafts and Art Walker Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Sight Word Madness West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open Play Time Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play Multiple times Family Fun McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time Roden Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Family Story Time South Shore Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Teen Time: Neurodiverse Rogers Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM LEGO® at the Library Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Librarian Office Hours Chinatown Education 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Come, Stay, Play / Ven, Quédate, Juega North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Computer Basics Class King Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® at the Library Albany Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM I Can Make That Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time Clearing Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Family Story Time Hall Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Open Play Time West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Grab and Go Kits Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Field Favorites in ASL Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM Live Jazz with Myles Hayes at The Ritz-Carlton, Chicago The Ritz-Carlton Chicago Community Live Music with Annalee Hooson at Torali Rooftop – Fridays Torali Italian-Steak Community Afternoon Tea at The Ritz-Carlton, Chicago – Saturdays & Sundays The Ritz-Carlton Chicago Community 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Zone Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Volunteer Hour Archer Heights Jobs and Careers First Lady’s Creepy Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community Howl-O-Ween Canine Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community

Oct 1 2 events

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Tiny Tot Swim - Level I at Blackhawk Blackhawk Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Wrestling at Ogden Ogden (William) Park Sports

Oct 10 92 events

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Chicago's Electric Blues Heritage and History: Diddley Bow Workshop Wrightwood-Ashburn Workshops 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Chicago Zine Fest 2026 Harold Washington Library Center Celebrations 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM The Universe, Black Chicago Aviators and Astronauts Harold Washington Library Center Workshops 10:00 AM Walking Tour | Downtown LGBTQIA+ Stories Chicago History Museum Tours Free 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Saturday Studio: The Painterly Print (Oct 10) Ryan Learning Center, Studio A Workshops Registration required, $45 members, $50 nonmembers 10:00 – 14:00 Lincoln Brunch Fest On Lincoln Avenue from Diversey to Wellington Festivals & Special Events 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Tortilla Tales: Food, Art and Mesoamerican Traditions Obama Presidential Center Celebrations 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Taller Gratuito Sobre Eliminación y Sellado de Antecedentes Penales Little Village Business, Law and Money 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Penguin Random House’s Banned Wagon Visit Obama Presidential Center Celebrations 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Yves Francois Rocambu Jazz at Cragin Cragin Park Music 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Oriole Park Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Artist Talk: Ralph Johnson on Architecture in a Rapidly Changing World Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, registration required 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM Film Screening: WALL-E (2008) Walker Film 7:00 PM - 8:54 PM Campfire Horrors at Commercial Club Commercial Club Playground of Chicago Film 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Archives in the Park: Chicago's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium North Park Village Nature Center History and Genealogy 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Entonces... ¿Qué es la IA? / What is AI, Anyway? McKinley Park Computers and Technology 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Books on the Chopping Block Edgewater Arts & Culture 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM The Chemistry of Wellness Workshop With The Carver Science Center Coleman Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Space Saturday: One Story Time, One Chicago Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Read & Run Chicago's Chinatown Run/Walk Shakeout Chinatown Tours 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Documentary Club: Against the Current with Filmmakers Joshua Jackson and Asif Wilson North Austin Film 10:00 AM Walking Tour | Paseo Boricua and Humboldt Park Chicago History Museum Tours Free 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Indigenous Peoples' Day Celebration at Harrison Harrison (Carter) Park Festivals & Special Events 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Family Story Time: One Story Time, One Chicago Chicago Lawn Story Time 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Free Record Expungement & Sealing Workshop Little Village Business, Law and Money 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Stop-Motion Animation Camp for Tweens Little Italy Computers and Technology 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time With the Mad Hatters Lozano Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Budlong Woods Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Five Bands Brotherhood Forum Series: The Discipline of a Strong Man DuSable Black History Museum Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One Book, One Chicago Discussion: Orbital Near North Book Clubs 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Coco (2017) West Belmont Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Adult Trick or Treat: Horror Book & Movie Swap Canaryville Celebrations 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Addams Family Values (1993) Canaryville Film 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Make Earrings or a Pendant with the Laser Cutter Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Haunted Library: Read, Write, Draw Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Princess Story Time and Cinderella Q & A Walker Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adult Clothing Swap Bucktown-Wicker Park DIY 09:30:00 – 14:30:00 Science Works Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Crocheting Circle Beverly Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Kids Assemble Beverly Workshops 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Chicago Laughter Yoga Logan Square Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM South Side Memories with Author Gloria Golec Archer Heights Writing and Poetry Saturday, October 10 Healing Arts Chicago Summit Malcolm X College Workshops 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Horrorgami with Robert Smith Rogers Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Listening Workshop at the Southwest Creative Studio Southwest Creative Studio Workshops 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Repair Cafe: Forward Chicago Sulzer Regional Workshops 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Reading is for Everyone: Braille Literacy Discussion and Reading Circle Harold Washington Library Center Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM LEGO Robotics and Coding Workshop Roden Computers and Technology 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Early Reader Book Club South Shore Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Film Screening: Apollo 13 (1995) Walker Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Stitch and Knit Club Toman Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Community Yoga with Collective Yoga Co-Op Lincoln Park Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Avalon Cookbook Club: AMMAZZA! Avalon Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Wycinanki: The Art of Polish Paper Cutouts Clearing Celebrations 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Write at CPL: Going Deep on Point of View Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Writing and Poetry 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Albany Park Film 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Cardboard Party: Cool Costumes and Clever Creations North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Board Game Bash Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Poetry Critique Manning Writing and Poetry 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Mad Hatters Story Time West Loop Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween (2019) Chinatown Film 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM RiverLab: Intermediate Paddle at Ping Tom Tom (Ping) Memorial Park Sports 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Cook by the Book Discussion: Snackable Bakes Edgebrook Book Clubs 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Halloween Crafts With Artful Kreaccions Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Vivo (2021) Chicago Bee Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Chicago Bee Film 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM The ABCDs of Medicare Harold Washington Library Center Health and Science 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM The Addams Family (1991) Canaryville Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: The Henna Artist Merlo Book Clubs 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Reading Came First Book Club Austin Book Clubs 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Chicago History Book Club Edgewater Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Same As It Ever Was Northtown Book Clubs 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff? A Community Discussion Uptown Computers and Technology 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Chair Meditation with Sahaja Yoga Little Italy Health and Science 6:30 AM - 10:30 AM Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum Field Museum Special Events Ticket required 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Tot Play Time Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Bilingual Story Time Back of the Yards Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Mandela Dot Art Rocks Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chair Yoga for Adults Legler Regional Health and Science 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Yoga for Adults/Yoga para Adultos West Lawn Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chair Yoga Legler Regional Health and Science 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Self-Care Saturday Wellness and Yoga with Melody Farmer South Chicago Health and Science 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go Kits: I Love Yarn Day Monster Craft Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Kelly Kouture Community Closet Kelly DIY 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Spanish Study Group Avalon Education 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Medicare 101 Clearing Business, Law and Money 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM LEGO® Club Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play Canine Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Ice Skating - Freestyle Ice Pre-Alpha-Delta at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Athletic 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pickleball - Open at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 1:00 PM - 8:30 PM The Marathon Dinner Eataly Community

Oct 11 33 events

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda del Valle: eL Cien Poetry Workshop Manning Writing and Poetry 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Chicago Latino Dance Festival at Humboldt Humboldt (Alexander Von) Park Performing Arts 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Kintsugi Workshop: Repair and Reconnect International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $75 1:15 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026) Walker Film 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Sunday Crafternoon Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: The Martian (2015) Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Black Phone 2 (2025) Kelly Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Screen and Stitch: Ghostbusters (2016) Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM The Cup Collective: A Tarot Meet Up Uptown DIY 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Sculpt Like Hunt and Perkins: A Creative Sculpting Workshop Roden Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Fall Fest at Jefferson Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Cine en Español: Selena (1997) Vodak-East Side Film 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Classic Horror/Sci-Fi Movie: Freaks (1932) South Shore Arts & Culture 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Get Creative With Cosplay Logan Square DIY 11:00 AM Walking Tour | Hyde Park Murals Chicago History Museum Tours Free 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM Sunday Market at Jefferson Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park Markets 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Family Flicks: Hercules (1997) Oriole Park Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Garfield Ridge Story Time 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Long Walk (2025) Independence Film 09:30:00 – 16:00:00 World of Genomics Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Twisted Threads: Fiber Arts Club Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Tim Curry Film Screening: Clue (1985) Archer Heights Film 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Cursive Club Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pokémon Club Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Pullman Film 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Coloring & Coffee for Adults: Spooky Cutie Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Medicare 101 Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Health and Science 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital by Samantha Harvey North Pulaski Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Community Meditative Circle Portage-Cragin Health and Science 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Mulan (2020) Chicago Lawn Film 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Film Screening: Obsession (2026) King Film 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Grab and Go Craft Kits Dunning Crafts, Games and Play Chicago Marathon Post-Race Offer at Toro Chicago Toro Community

Oct 12 72 events

09:30:00 – 14:00:00 World of Genomics Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Birds of the City: Obama Presidential Center Branch - Birding Tour Obama Presidential Center Tours 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Artist Talk: Ei Arakawa-Nash Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free, registration required 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Teen Open Studio: Paper-Cut Pictures Ryan Learning Center, Studio B Workshops Free / Free, no registration required Museum admission is free to Chicago teens under 18 and all children under 14. 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Space Men (2016) Thurgood Marshall Film 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tagalong Tap Class at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Teen Grab & Go: Dungeon Crawl Classics Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM K-12 Teacher Workshops: Object Based Learning and Artifact Analysis Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Arts & Culture Free 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Celebrating Polish Folktales with Master Storyteller Megan Wells Rogers Park Arts & Culture 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tween Paper Arts: Origami McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Spoilers Ahead Book Club Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Teen Hip Hop Workshop at Warren Warren (Laurence) Park Performing Arts 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Music with Miss Ruby Edgewater Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Hotel Transylvania (2012) South Chicago Film 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Teatime at the Bee Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Oriole Park Film 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Documentary Screening: Our Soldiers, Our Lady of Guadalupe (2022) Vodak-East Side Film 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026) Avalon Film 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Spooky Story Workshop Austin Story Time 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Film Screening: Monster House (2006) Mayfair Film 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Indigenous Peoples' Day Real Ones Read: Saints of the Household Chinatown Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Painting and Soundbath Experience Toman Arts & Culture 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Make a Rug Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Simple Stitches Crochet Club Austin-Irving Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Art Afternoon Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Make-Believe Monday Play Group Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tummy Time Lincoln Park Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Caldecott Book Club Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After School LEGO® Club Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Art Club: Pumpkin Painting Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Spooky Stories Clearing Celebrations 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Cartwheels & Crafts at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Hocus Pocus (1993) Canaryville Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kid Science Club Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Create-Your-Own: Capes and Crooks Near North Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Monday Matinee: Obsession (2026) Edgewater Film 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Cozy Crafting Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Art Buffet Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Banned Book Bingo Greater Grand Crossing Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Early Morning Bird Walks at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Outreach 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tween Grab and Go Kit: Alebrije Masks Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM Workshop: Drawing & Painting from a Still Life Bucktown-Wicker Park Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM October Family Film Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993) Little Italy Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Bezazian Writers Collective Bezazian Writing and Poetry 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Cookbook Club Dunning Book Clubs 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Story Time West Belmont Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® at the Library West Town Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Edgebrook Arts & Culture 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Leaps and Turns Workshop at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 10:50 AM - 12:25 PM Holiday Parent and Child Swim at Mann Mann (James) Park Athletic 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Mini Pumpkin Painting Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Memory Monday Games Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Open Art Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM Blood Drive Mayfair Health and Science 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Card Game Night South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM One Storytime,One Chicago West Loop Story Time 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM BINGO! Adult Game Night Beverly Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Video Game Night Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Beginner Table Tennis West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pritzker Park Pop-Up Pritzker Park Outreach 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Minions and Monsters (2026) Budlong Woods Film 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Craft Lab Grab and Go: Magnetic Mini-Canvas Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Drop-In LEGO® in the Library Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kids Grab and Go: Pipe Cleaner Ninja Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Holiday Senior Swim at Mann Mann (James) Park Athletic 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Holiday Youth Swim at Mann Mann (James) Park Athletic 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Holiday Adult Swim at Mann Mann (James) Park Athletic 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Basketball (ASMG) - Open at Gately Gately (James) Park Sports 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pickleball - Open at Mann Mann (James) Park Sports Chicago Marathon Post-Race Offer at Toro Chicago Toro Community 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM Ice Hockey - Stickhandling Skills at Morgan Pk SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Sports 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Volleyball - Open at Gately Gately (James) Park Sports

Oct 13 53 events

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Sculpt Like Hunt and Perkins: A Creative Sculpting Workshop North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM Leaf it to Us: A Plant Swap in Austin Austin Workshops 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Medicare 101 Roden Health and Science 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Fiesta Mexicana: Interactive Family Show at Bogan Bogan (William) Park Performing Arts 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Documentary Club: Against the Current with Filmmakers Joshua Jackson and Asif Wilson Harold Washington Library Center Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Light of Space Paper Lanterns West Belmont Arts & Culture 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Terror Tuesdays Week 2: AIP: Masters of the Drive-In Sulzer Regional Writing and Poetry 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Hope Cometh: Breast Cancer Awareness Month Education Jeffery Manor Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Sewing Hour: Make a Bag West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Grand Crossing Grand Crossing Park Community 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Salsa Moves and Latin Grooves: A Senior-Friendly Latiné Heritage Celebration Budlong Woods Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Fluxx Game Night Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Book, One Chicago Story Time Humboldt Park Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Cookies for Kindness Little Italy Celebrations 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Recreate a Famous Song Kelly Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Kid's Spooky Pinatas Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Hotel Transylvania & Ernest Scared Stupid Jefferson Park Film 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Behind the Mic: Finding Your Voice In Your Music Production Legler Regional Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Recording Studio Certification for Teens Merlo Computers and Technology 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Pumpkin Decorating South Shore Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM College Finances: Financial Aid and More with Ladder Up Chinatown Education 3:30 PM - 5:45 PM Film Screening: Obsession (2026) Thurgood Marshall Film 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026) Brainerd Film 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM What's On My Ballot? Humboldt Park Business, Law and Money 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Movie Screening: The Addams Family (2019) Bucktown-Wicker Park Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM DIY Crafts for Adults: Polish Paper Cut-Outs (Wycinanki) Chicago Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Make a Pendant or Keychain with the 3D Printer Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Sewing Hour: Costume Edition! Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Mindful Yoga Near North Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Rocket Launch and Stargazing Plaza Huitzil Celebrations 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Understanding Power of Attorney for Property and Healthcare Dunning Business, Law and Money 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids Create: Stickers, Stencils and Stamps Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Film Screening: Tarot (2024) South Shore Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids' Crafternoon: Pumpkin Painting Mayfair Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Kelly Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Fall Crafts Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen DIY: Tassel Keychain or Earrings Little Italy DIY 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM STEAM Club Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Preschool Story Time/La Hora Del Cuento Toman Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Create Club Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Computer Basics: Excel 101 Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Preschool Story Time / La hora del cuento Toman Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Microsoft 101 Lozano Computers and Technology 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Daley Bridgeport Library Writing Club Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Writing and Poetry 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Family Craft Night Roden Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Game Night Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM High School Open Shop Sulzer Regional DIY 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Teens Pool League South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Gately Park Athletic Club (ASMG) at Gately Gately (James) Park Athletic 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Gately Park Athletic Club - Indoor Only (ASMG) at Gately Gately (James) Park Athletic 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Fun and Games at Brainerd Brainerd Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Recreational Tumbling at La Follette La Follette (Robert) Park Athletic 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Ballet - Beginner Partnership at Clarendon Clarendon Community Center Park Performing Arts

Oct 14 71 events

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Pulitzer-winners on Storytelling and America: Percival Everett, Daniel Kraus, Amanda Vaill, Jon Cherry and Jelani Cobb Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chicago: The Birthplace of Black History Tour with Dilla the Urban Historian Woodson Regional History and Genealogy 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM National Fossil Day Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Chicago's Electric Blues Heritage and History: Diddley Bow Workshop Mayfair Workshops 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Monster Mash Fall Festival Avalon Celebrations 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago West Belmont Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM The Great Pumpkin Jar Paint-Off Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Write at CPL: Non-Chronological Structures in Memoir Austin Writing and Poetry 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Zoning and Land Use 101 with Metropolitan Planning Council Vodak-East Side Business, Law and Money 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Bad Art Afternoon Lozano Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 1,2,3 Book Club West Belmont Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Countdown to Doomsday: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Wrightwood-Ashburn Film 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PlayLab PlayDate: Diwali Storytime and Craft Field Museum Family Included with admission 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at La Follette La Follette (Robert) Park Community 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Hamilton (2020) Woodson Regional Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Fall Into Fun Party Vodak-East Side Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Young at Heart: Lotería Magnets Craft Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: One Book, One Chicago Oriole Park Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Golden Hour at Northerly Island Northerly Island Park Community 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Recreate a Famous Song Whitney M. Young, Jr. Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Youth Safety & AI: A Facilitated Discussion Manning Computers and Technology 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Halloween Window Painting Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Scottsdale Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Music For Self-Care: Share A Favorite Song! Rogers Park Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Cookbook Club Austin Book Clubs 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Tot Spot Learning Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Film Screening: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Altgeld Film 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Pre-Halloween Craft Day Obama Presidential Center Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Art with Viv Beverly Arts & Culture 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tween Paper Arts McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Collecting and Cultivating Native Seeds Humboldt Park DIY 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Renfield (2023) Sulzer Regional Film 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Super Smash Bros Gaming Tournament Blackstone Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Coffee and Connections / Café y Conexiones Little Village Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids' Sewing Craft Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM RUSH Caring for Caregivers: Dementia Training West Town Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Tween Scene: Spooky Monster Stitch-Up Edition Austin Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Decorating Sugar Skulls/Decora Calaveritas de Azucar Toman Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Wonder Wednesday Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Mother Goose on the Loose Story Time Lincoln Park Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Afterschool LEGO® Club North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Learn about Hypertension, Heart Health, and Get Your Blood Pressure Checked Uptown Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Haunted Library: Junk Journals Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM LEGO® Night West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Sulzer Regional Workshops 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Armour Seminar: Patrícia Rodrigues-Niu Field Museum Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Makeup Rogers Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Adult One Book, One Chicago Discussion: The Orbital McKinley Park Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Whitney M. Young, Jr. Story Time 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Little Library, Big Games Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Claim Your Future: Career Exploration with ISAC Budlong Woods Jobs and Careers 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Book Club Jr Legler Regional Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Adulting 101 Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Education 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Mather's Grow-It-Together Garden Club In-Person Viewing West Pullman DIY 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen DIY and Crafts Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Preschool Story Time Mount Greenwood Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Crafternoon Portage-Cragin Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Crafternoon Wednesdays Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Notebook and Bookmark Decorating Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM BrightPath® Story Time Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tween Hangout Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Retro Game Day: Tabletop Game Play Near North Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Family Bingo Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Medicare 101 with Mike Salvaggio Dunning Business, Law and Money 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time in Commercial Park Commercial Club Park Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Austin Film 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Story Time Lincoln Park Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Toddler Time Lincoln Belmont Story Time Wednesday, October 14 Consult DCASE October Chicago Cultural Center Conference 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Bitty Basketball at Mt. Greenwood Mount Greenwood Park Sports Fall Festival at Pioneer Court Pioneer Court Community

Oct 15 73 events

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Handy Hieroglyphs A beginners guide to impressing friends and colleagues (in museums) Online Arts & Culture $90 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Lecture: Dressing at the Crossroads—Reconsidering the Traditional Dress of the Arabian Peninsula Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, registration required 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM RiverLab: Sunset Paddle at Park No. 571 Park No. 571 Athletic 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Chicago Astronomer at Northerly Island Northerly Island Park Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Lecture: Dressing at the Crossroads of the Arabian Peninsula Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, registration required 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Space Game Day Edgebrook Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM IMSS Candlelight Haunted Historic Home Tour International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $30 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Odyssey Day: the Cyclops, Circe and Penelope Obama Presidential Center Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CathARTic Edutainment Movement Workshop Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Film Screening: Coco (2017) Harold Washington Library Center Film 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Secrets of the Universe: The Numerology Workshop West Loop Workshops 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Spotlight Talk: Italian Mannerism Meet in Gallery 205 Tours Free / Free with museum admission, no registration required 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Independence Workshops 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Food for the Holidays: A Meal Prep Zine Workshop Harold Washington Library Center DIY 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Teen Film Series- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) Lincoln Belmont Film 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Zap! Storytime With Brookfield Zoo Chicago Austin Story Time 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Cozy Candle Making: Scents of Fall Kelly DIY 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM RESCHEDULED | Lecture: Dressing at the Crossroads of the Arabian Peninsula Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, registration required 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Film Screening: An American Pickle (2020) Harold Washington Library Center Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Halloween Rock Painting Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Courtyard Tales: Preschool Story Time by the Book Bird Obama Presidential Center Story Time 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Young Parents Support Group Legler Regional Health and Science 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Let's Play Dungeons and Dragons Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Film Screening: Underworld (2003) Greater Grand Crossing Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM Music For Self-Care: Share Your Favorite Song! Austin Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: The Addams Family 2 (2021) Gage Park Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Medicare 101 Garfield Ridge Health and Science 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM Film Screening: Nosferatu (2024) Sulzer Regional Film 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Boxing Show at Ada Ada (Sawyer Garrett) Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM LEGO® Club Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Quilted Community Blanket Little Village Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Bilingual Story Time Portage-Cragin Story Time 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Pumpkin Painting Contest Gage Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ESL Book Discussion: What is AI? Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Family Game Night Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Spooky Candy Catapults Back of the Yards DIY 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM The ABCDs of Medicare Sulzer Regional Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time Coleman Story Time 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Cookbook Café Book Club: In For Dinner Lincoln Park Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Letting Go: Making Space for What Matters - Powered by Trellus Albany Park Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Craft Night: Pumpkin Painting King Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM West Loop Stitch Club West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Create and Paint by Numbers Halloween Program Woodson Regional DIY 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Lap-Sit Story Time Little Italy Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Perler Bead Club for Teens Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Computer Basics: Online Safety Scottsdale Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mummy Race Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Artful Afternoons King Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Story Time Austin-Irving Story Time 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® in the Library Northtown Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Video Game Night Brainerd Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Design Den: Arts and Crafts Coleman Computers and Technology 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time and Play Group Budlong Woods Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Clearing Workshops 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen DIY: Mini Ghost in a Jar Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Tween Craft Hour Uptown Crafts, Games and Play 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Book Journaling and Decorating Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM One Story Time, One Chicago South Chicago Story Time 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Drop in Tech Talk for Adults and Seniors Jeffery Manor Computers and Technology 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Midday Reset Hegewisch Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Wooden Cutouts Hall Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sip & Paint: Breast Cancer Awareness Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Chess for Beginners Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After School Activities / Actividades después de la escuela Sherman Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM State Representative Abdelnasser Rashid Mobile Office Hours Garfield Ridge Business, Law and Money 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Department of Family and Support Services Pullman Health and Science 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Ice Skating - Parent-Tot Skate at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Athletic 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Candy Crunching Seek-and-Find West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM DIY: Pocket Canvas Painting Open Shop Brainerd Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Make Your Mark Independence Crafts, Games and Play 18:00–20:00 Exhibition Tour: Guided Meditation, and Sound Bath Museum of Contemporary Photography Workshops 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Poetry Pop-up: Lives of Plants Field Museum Arts & Culture

Oct 16 34 events

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Fiesta Mexicana: Interactive Family Show at Pasteur Pasteur (Louis) Park Performing Arts 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM OBOC Book Club at the Art Institute Art Institute of Chicago Writing and Poetry 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Sounding/BODY: Philomela Fragments with Terns & Ah Young Hong International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $15 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM We The People at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Music 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Creepy Tales From the Fungal Kingdom Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Film Screening: Encanto (2021) Brainerd Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chinese Film Screening: Dragon Blade (2015) 电影放映:天將雄師 Chinatown Film 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Edgewater Memory Café Edgewater Workshops 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM One Story Time, One Chicago North Austin Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Film Screening: McFarland, USA (2018) Back of the Yards Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Alien (1979) Harold Washington Library Center Film 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Growing the Future: An Introduction to Bioplastics Harold Washington Library Center DIY 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Creative Writing Workshop Budlong Woods Writing and Poetry 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Emerging Adult Journaling to Stop Brain Rot Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Breast Cancer Awareness Bezazian Health and Science 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Coloring for Adults West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Western Line Dance Throwdown at Columbus Columbus (Christopher) Park Performing Arts 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Medicare: Annual Enrollment Session with Anthony Perrino Beverly Health and Science 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Learn about Medicare Options Manning Health and Science 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Music and Movement Story Time with Ms. My Uptown Story Time Live Reading: “Cold Was the Ground” American Writers Museum Festivals & Special Events 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Learn Chess Basics for Adults Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Day of the Dead Canvas Program Oriole Park Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Tummy Time South Shore Story Time 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Exhale: A Friday Wind-Down for Juniors & Seniors Kelly Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Teens Fall Spackle Art South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Basic Computer Skills Help for Seniors West Pullman Computers and Technology 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Stay and Play Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Science of Superheroes at Commercial Club Commercial Club Playground of Chicago Education Sightseeing River & Lake Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pre-K Open Gym at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM Stick & Puck at McFetridge McFetridge Ice Rink (Indoor) Athletic Vintage on the Avenue The Shops at North Bridge Community Chicago by Night River & Lake Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community

Oct 17 103 events

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Fall Festival at NPV North Park Village Nature Center Park Athletic 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Lecture: An Architectural History of the Franke Reading Room Fullerton Hall Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, registration required 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Reel Queer Film Screening & Artist Talk (LGBTQIA+ History/Latine Heritage Month edition): Amigas Latinas Forever (2023) Yollocalli Arts Reach Education 3:00 PM - 10:00 PM Open House Chicago Chicago Festivals & Special Events 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Words Have Power: Tween Time with Rhymefest Obama Presidential Center Story Time 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: H.C. Westermann Documentary Harold Washington Library Center Film 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Voices of the City: A Building-Wide Arts Celebration at Harold Washington Library Center Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Hoop Dancing with Starr Chief Eagle at Seward Seward (William) Park Performing Arts Rosehill Cemetery ‘Crypt’ 5K Run/Walk Rosehill Cemetery Athletic 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Harold Washington Library Center Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Sculpt Like Hunt and Perkins: A Creative Sculpting Workshop Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM Fall Bird Walk Park No. 601 - "Dunning Read Natural Area" Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM How Grant Funding Works: A Plain Language Introduction for New Learners Douglass Workshops 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM Loop Arts Fest: Music in the Lobby Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Latin Pride Teen Sneaker Ball at LeClaire-Hearst LeClaire-Hearst Park Music 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Inglés Jurídico Para la Vida Cotidiana Little Village Education 10:00 AM Walking Tour | Glitterati on the Gold Coast Chicago History Museum Tours Free 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Climbing Club at Steelworkers Steelworkers Park Athletic 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM RiverLab: River Exploration Paddle at Park No. 571 Park No. 571 Athletic 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Jazz Institute of Chicago presents: Lost in Space with Kevin King Brainerd Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Wycinanki: The Art of Polish Paper Cutouts Little Italy Celebrations 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Open House: 125 Years of the Franke Reading Room Franke Reading Room Special Events Free / Free, no registration required 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Your Story Matters: Storytelling Through Words and Art Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Introduction to AI Tools for Everyday Workflow Mayfair Computers and Technology 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Learn to Make Bioplastics Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play Black Poetry Day Readings & Reflections American Writers Museum Festivals & Special Events 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Makers Market Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Legal English for Everyday Life Little Village Education 10:00 AM Walking Tour | Historic Old Town Chicago History Museum Tours Free 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Itty Bitty Explorers: T. rex Teeth & Tails Field Museum Arts & Culture Ticket required 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Author Q&A: Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy by Anne Libera Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Chicago International Film Festival Shorts Harold Washington Library Center Film 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Spooky Slime Saturday Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Family Music Concert Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Crafts for Adults: Corn Husk Doll Near North Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Tortilla Art: Food, Tales and Mesoamerican Traditions Jefferson Park Celebrations 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM Family Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo Budlong Woods Health and Science 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Trunk or Treat at Shabbona Shabbona Park Crafts, Games and Play 7:00 PM - 8:31 PM Campfire Horrors at Grand Crossing Grand Crossing Park Film 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Slime Saturday: Glow in the Dark West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Magic the Gathering for Beginners Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Teen Film Series: M3GAN (2023) Lincoln Park Film 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Socialism: What It Is, What It Is Not Edgewater Workshops 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Real Ones Read: Teen Book Club Gage Park Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Curso Intensivo de Gramática Inglesa: Domina los Verbos Compuestos de Uso Cotidiano Little Village Education 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM English Grammar Bootcamp: Master Everyday Phrasal Verbs Little Village Education 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: One Safe Place Whitney M. Young, Jr. Book Clubs 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Coloring with Jazz South Shore Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM Educator Seminar | Facing Freedom Chicago History Museum Workshops Free 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Patricia Liddell Researchers Meeting Woodson Regional History and Genealogy 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Common Pantry Food Collection Drive Sulzer Regional Health and Science 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM Luminary L.Connect: Provenance Research Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Franke Reading Room Workshops L.Connect programs are exclusive to members at the Luminary Silver level and above. Email luminary@artic.edu to register. 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Destination Discovery Story Time at Lincoln Park Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo Story Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM FAFSA Financial Aid Application Workshop Avalon Education 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Fall Color Tree Walk Humboldt Park Health and Science 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Library Explorers Club: West Town Branch West Town Book Clubs 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Clear Uptown Book Clubs 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Rock Your Rhymes! Poets United West Pullman Writing and Poetry 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Community Building: Audio Book + Craft Little Village Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Try Tarot! With ViVi Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Crafts for Kids Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Halloween Crafts With Artful Kreaccions Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Courtyard Tales: Preschool Story Time Obama Presidential Center Story Time 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Club de Libros en Español: El poder del espejo Scottsdale Book Clubs 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Go Run Chicago at Garfield Garfield (James) Park Athletic 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Gaming Tournament Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Crafting Saturdays: Mandala Bookmarks South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Artful Afternoon Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Tween Emoji Painting Workshop Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Crafts, Games and Play 16:00:00 – 22:00:00 Boo Fest Member Night Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Members Only 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Chair Meditation with Sahaja Yoga Manning Health and Science 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Read to Rover Beverly Workshops 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Intro to Cricut Sticker Making or Heat Transfer Brainerd Computers and Technology 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: The Midnight Library Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Horror Movie Trivia Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Saturday Come, Stay, Play / Ven, quédate, juega el sábado North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Let's Glow Crazy! at Park No. 538 - the Stadium Park No. 538 Sports 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Ribbons, Hoops and Blades at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Athletic 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Reading Hour with Cipriani’s Pizza Garfield Ridge Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: The Visit (2015) Thurgood Marshall Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Reel Horrors: Halloween Movie & TV Trivia Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Midway Softball Classic at Wentworth Wentworth (John) Park Athletic 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Jewelry Making Club Kelly Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Tot Play Time Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Saturday Story Time Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Story Time 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Tween Gaming Greater Grand Crossing Computers and Technology 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Family Craft Hour Uptown Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Saturday Open Play King Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go Kits: Q-Tip Skeleton Craft Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Adult Book Discussion: Uprooted Jeffery Manor Book Clubs 6:30 PM - 11:30 PM Field Museum Gala Field Museum Arts & Culture Ticket required 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Bilingual Story Time Back of the Yards Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Blood Pressure Screenings with the Chicago Department of Public Health Douglass Health and Science 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Adult Book Discussion Budlong Woods Book Clubs 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM Soirèe at the Gala Field Museum Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Soccer Skills at Commercial Club Commercial Club Playground of Chicago Sports 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Tiny Tot Tumbling at Commercial Club Commercial Club Playground of Chicago Athletic 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM Jr Frogs ADM/Intro to Hockey Horned Frogs at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Ice Rink (Indoor) Sports 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Ice Skating - Freestyle Ice Pre-Alpha-Delta at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Gately Track Showcase (ASMG) at Gately Gately (James) Park Athletic Vintage on the Avenue The Shops at North Bridge Community

Oct 18 30 events

12:00 – 18:00 Roscoe Village Halloween Block Party On Roscoe from Damen to Leavitt Festivals & Special Events 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM The American Songbook Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Luminaria de la Vida - Exhibition Opening at South Shore South Shore Cultural Center Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM Walking Tour | Sheffield Stroll Chicago History Museum Tours Free 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Celebrating Polish Folktales with Master Storyteller Megan Wells Oriole Park Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Learn to Sew Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Developmental Playgroup with The Little Duck Collective Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Curtain’s Up on Redtwist Theatre Edgewater Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Boogie (2021) Chicago Lawn Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Book Discussion: Dogland South Chicago Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Family Film Screening: Corpse Bride (2005) Back of the Yards Film 07:45:00 U-505 In-Depth Experience Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Trunk or Treat at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Community 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Book Swap Chinatown Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Folklore Beauty of Brothers Grimm Sulzer Regional Workshops 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Jewelry Repair & Upcycled Fashion with Joy Joshua Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Archaeology and the Bible tour The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum Tours $5 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Scream 7 (2026) Kelly Film 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Book Appétit: A Cookbook Book Club Mayfair Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Knights of the Zodiac (2023) Pullman Film 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM Film Screening: Interstellar (2014) Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Brothers Grimm Folklore Sulzer Regional Workshops 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: M3GAN 2.0 (2025) King Film 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Film Screening: Disclosure Day (2026) Coleman Film 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Trunk or Treat Volunteer at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Seasonal & Holiday 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Goosebumps (2015) Scottsdale Film Mike Ditka Lookalike Contest at Pippin’s Tavern Pippin's Tavern Community 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adaptive Dance at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts Vintage on the Avenue The Shops at North Bridge Community Autumn Harvest Market Pioneer Court Community

Oct 19 59 events

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sculpt Like Hunt and Perkins: A Creative Sculpting Workshop Austin Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Novel Thoughts Austin-Irving Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Screen Printing With Mr. Omar and Abby Austin Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ‘Scopes in the City Portage-Cragin Book Clubs 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Magic Monday: Pumpkin Pandemonium Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Coffee and Connections Harold Washington Library Center Outreach 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Notable News in Space Science with Northwestern's CIERA Edgebrook Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Bezazian Writers Collective Bezazian Writing and Poetry 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Teen Grab & Go: Dungeon Crawl Classics Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Documentary Club: Against the Current with Filmmakers Joshua Jackson and Asif Wilson Beverly Film 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Music with Miss Ruby Edgewater Story Time 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Monday Matinee: Ready or Not (2019) Edgewater Film 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Art Club: Costume Workshop Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Crafternoon: Salt & Sugar Scrubs Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Paper Cup Rocket Launchers Oriole Park Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Poltergeist (1982) Sulzer Regional Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Budlong Game Night Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Zombie Outbreak Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Toy Story 5 (2026) Avalon Film 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Karaoke Manning Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Polish Folk Art Coasters West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Halloween Scavenger Hunt Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Spooky Book Club for Tweens Little Italy Book Clubs 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion Dunning Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mindful Monday Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Health and Science 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Afterschool Gaming Club Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Early Morning Bird Walks at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Outreach 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Better Balance: A Gentle Movement Class for Adults Hegewisch Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Pop-Up Book Making Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Sewing: Make a Pet Bandana Sulzer Regional DIY 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Craft Lab Grab and Go: Magnetic Mini-Canvas Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tween Grab and Go Kit: Alebrije Masks Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Teen Resume and Job Search Workshop South Chicago Jobs and Careers 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Minions and Monsters (2026) South Chicago Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Canaryville Mahjong Club Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Art Journaling at Eugene Field Field (Eugene) Park Workshops 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM Teen Game Night Altgeld Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Drawing & Painting at Eugene Field Field (Eugene) Park Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Tech Help for Beginners Hall Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion West Lawn Book Clubs 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kids Grab and Go: Pipe Cleaner Ninja Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Painting at Eugene Field Field (Eugene) Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:25 PM - 7:10 PM Off-Ice Conditioning for Figure Skaters at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Girls Soccer at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Pickleball - Open at Kosciuszko Kosciuszko (Thadeuz) Park Sports 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM USAG Boys Team Gymnastics Compulsory at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM USAG Girls Team Gymnastics Lev. 6+ at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Strength & Conditioning at Smith Smith (Joseph Higgins) Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Dance - Mini Poms at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Performing Arts 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Trash to Treasure at Ping Tom Tom (Ping) Memorial Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Girls Basketball League at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Kids Yoga at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Dance - Ballet - Tot 1 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Performing Arts 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pickleball - Drills and Skills - Tactical at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Boys Gymnastics Lev. 3 - 4 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Adult/Tot Adventure Yoga Club at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Athletic 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM USAG Girls Gymnastics Xcel Team at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Play School at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Community 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Teen Boxing 101 at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Athletic

Oct 2 1 event

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Kick Off Spooky Season with Forbidden Newberry The Newberry Library Community

Oct 20 67 events

Get Lit: Witch Please American Writers Museum Festivals & Special Events 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Terror Tuesdays Week 3: Hammer Horror- The Studio That Dripped Blood Sulzer Regional Writing and Poetry 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Story Hour for Grown-Ups Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Stamp the Solar System Scottsdale Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Meet Calvin B. Jones: Make a Mini-Mural Sulzer Regional Workshops 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Ping Tom Goes Pink at Ping Tom Tom (Ping) Memorial Park Athletic 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Find Your Sound: Music Production Douglass Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Haunted Library: 3D Printed Clickers Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM THIN Book Club: The Witch Lincoln Belmont Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Halloween Origami Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Sewing Hour: Costume Edition! Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: The Fly (1958) Jefferson Park Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Bike Basics With Xail Back of the Yards DIY 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Kid's Artificial Pumpkin Painting Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Pajama Story Time Legler Regional Story Time 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Homeschool Neighbors Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Medicare 101 Woodson Regional Business, Law and Money 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Film Screening: The First Omen (2024) South Shore Film 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Family Halloween Celebration Kelly Celebrations 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Make Something Awesome: Puzzle Art South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Origami and Paper Cutting with Ms. My Uptown Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Pajama Story Time Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Story Time 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Open Arts and Crafts Session North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Custom Design T-shirt or Tote Bag Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Book Club Celebration Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Middle School Makers Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Beatmaking Basics Kelly Arts & Culture 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Backyard Story Time Vodak-East Side Story Time 5:30 PM - 6:25 PM Dance - Ballet & Jazz Partnership at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Performing Arts 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Cookbook Club West Belmont Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Baby Lap-Sit Story Time Dunning Story Time 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adult Bingo Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Dust Child Chicago Lawn Book Clubs 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Sewing Machine Basics Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM DIY Fall Time Bracelets Greater Grand Crossing Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Fall Crafts Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM The Artist's Studio at the Library Canaryville Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Photography Scavenger Hunt Merlo Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids Craft: Fall Leaf Painting Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM STEAM Tuesdays Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Teen Post-Secondary Exploration: Job Fair South Chicago Business, Law and Money 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Arty Afternoon Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Halloween Party Mount Greenwood Celebrations 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Teen Party at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Community 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM DIY Felt Sugar Skulls Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Learn Computer Basics Legler Regional Computers and Technology 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Pickleball - Serve & Return Clinic at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Afterschool Snack and Chill Brainerd Crafts, Games and Play 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Bilingual Story Time West Loop Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® Club Hegewisch Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pickleball - Drills and Skills - Beginner at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pickleball - Paddle Pioneers - Beginner at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Crafts: Ghost or Jack-o-Lantern Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Parent and Tot Dance Fitness at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM Floor Hockey at Smith Smith (Joseph Higgins) Park Sports 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Pickleball - Learn & Play - Beginner at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM USAG Girls Team Gymnastics Lev. 3 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM USAG Girls Team Gymnastics Lev. 4 - 5 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tiny Tot Sports at McKiernan Playground McKiernan (David) Park Sports 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Strength & Conditioning at Smith Smith (Joseph Higgins) Park Athletic 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Basketball Skills at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Sports 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Womens Volleyball League at Mt. Greenwood Mount Greenwood Park Sports 6:30 PM Film Screening | “Stand Up” Chicago History Museum Film 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Basketball - Youth League at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Baseball - Level 2 at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Cheer Tumbling Int. at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Bitty Basketball at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Sports

Oct 21 71 events

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Write at CPL: When Everything Changed: Writing Your Marker Story Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Sculpt Like Hunt and Perkins: A Creative Sculpting Workshop Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Observational Drawing Using Unusual Specimens Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Armchair Tour of the Solar System West Lawn Book Clubs 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Weird Book Club at Midwest Coast Brewing: The Icepick Surgeon Midwest Coast Brewing Company Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Chicago Bee Workshops 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Documentary Club: Against the Current with Filmmakers Joshua Jackson and Asif Wilson Manning Film 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM The Auditorium: Open Mic in Austin Austin Arts & Culture 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Weird Book Club at Rogers Park Social Rogers Park Social Book Clubs 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM LEGO® Night Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Writing in the Galleries: One Person, Many Selves Galleries 1–4 Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, no registration required 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Supernatural Stacks Book Club: The Haunting of Hill House Edgebrook Book Clubs 6:30 PM Film Screening | “While We Are Here” Chicago History Museum Film 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Sound Meditation Harold Washington Library Center Health and Science 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Resin Creations Lab Thurgood Marshall DIY 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Luminaria de la Vida - Gallery Hours at South Shore South Shore Cultural Center Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Benefits Access Support with Hunger Free America Manning Health and Science 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Classic Film Screening: The Innocents (1961) Rogers Park Film 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Crafting the Archives: Día de los muertos Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Club: Orbital Austin-Irving Book Clubs 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Listening Circle: Poetry Unbound Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Obsession (2026) Austin Film 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Spooky Light Up Bookmarks West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Kids Fall Soap Making Wrightwood-Ashburn DIY 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Adulting 101 Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Education 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Vendor Networking Event at South Shore South Shore Cultural Center/Fieldhouse Business, Law and Money 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time in Commercial Park Commercial Club Park Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 1,2,3 Book Club West Belmont Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Families Together: Mixed Media Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids' Sewing Craft Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM STEAM Time Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pumpkin Painting for Teens Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Shrinky Dinks Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Canvas and Conversation North Austin Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM The Artist's Studio at the Library Greater Grand Crossing Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Letting Go: Making Space for What Matters - Powered by Trellus Albany Park Health and Science 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Adult Daytime Book Club: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Game Night Greater Grand Crossing Crafts, Games and Play 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Haunted Mansion (2023) Woodson Regional Film 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Sulzer Regional Workshops 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Robot Club Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Chicago Shoreline Plan: Public Webinar at Online Offsite or Online Location Community 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Holiday Teen Basketball Jam at Ellis Ellis (Samuel) Park Sports 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Stitch Night Oriole Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Sulzer Regional Film 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Spooky Movie Night Altgeld Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Community Resource Fair at Woodson Regional Woodson Regional Business, Law and Money 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CAPS Beat 1634 Meeting Portage-Cragin Business, Law and Money 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Preschool Story Time Mount Greenwood Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Play Doh Fun Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® and Games Club Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Maker Mania: Halloween Edition Austin Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Read, Write, Draw North Pulaski Story Time 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Children's Story Time Douglass Story Time Third Wednesday: Beyond Borders Driehaus Museum Community 7:05 PM - 7:35 PM Ice Skating - Ice Dance at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Performing Arts 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tween Hangout Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM Tennis Lessons: NTRP 3.0 - 4.0, Early AM WKSH at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Tennis - JD Future Stars at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports Market Days at Pioneer Court Pioneer Court Community 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM Tap & Ballet Partnership at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Performing Arts 5:00 PM - 5:55 PM Dance - Hip Hop Partnership at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Performing Arts 3:15 PM - 3:55 PM Music and Movement Partnership at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Music 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Womens Volleyball League at Mt. Greenwood Mount Greenwood Park Sports Wednesday, October 21 I Love Boosters Screening and Talkback Claudia Cassidy Theater, 2nd Floor North Film 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Ice Skating - Snowplow Sam 3 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 6:00 PM - 6:55 PM Ballet & Jazz Partnership at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Performing Arts 7:15 PM - 8:00 PM Dance - Youth Ballet at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Performing Arts 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM Track and Field 200 at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Youth Swim at Harris Harris (Harriet) Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Track and Field 101 at Addams Addams Track Sports

Oct 22 66 events

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM You Didn't See Nothin: A True Crime Story Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM The Costume Council Presents | Threads of a Nation: A Celebration of Style & Statesmanship Chicago History Museum Special Events General Admission: Costume Council member, $175; nonmember, $200 5:00 PM Stories Objects Hold: Exploring (Non)Material Remnants of Türkiye: Curator and Artist in Conversation on “Time, Fragmented” The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), Breasted Hall Arts & Culture Free 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Meet Geraldine Lane Mardis: A Hands-on Beauty Workshop Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Workshops 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM AI for Visual Disabilities Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM DIY Sugar Hand Scrub Craft Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Next Gen Archers at Mozart Mozart (Amadeus) Park Sports 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM HIV/STI Screening with Howard Brown Health South Shore Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM NEIU Discussion of Orbital Northeastern Illinois University Writing and Poetry 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® Club Independence Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pokémon Club Beverly Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Medicare 101 Jeffery Manor Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Frankenweenie (2012) Gage Park Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AI and the Future Ahead of Us Albany Park Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Dance Party: All Ages Fun with Textured Dance Uptown Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Zap! Storytime With Brookfield Zoo Chicago Austin Story Time 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Meet Chester Commodore: Drawing and Illustration 101 Brighton Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM DJ + Beat Making Little Village Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Film Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993) Rogers Park Film 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Boxing Show at Brooks Brooks (Oscar) Park Athletic 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Zoning and Land Use 101 Hall Business, Law and Money 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nature Club: Tree Identification Walk with Openlands Sulzer Regional Health and Science 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Film Screening: Underworld: Evolution (2006) Greater Grand Crossing Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Electric Vehicles: Understanding Total Cost of Ownership and Their Impact on Sustainability Jeffery Manor Health and Science 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: The Warsaw Orphan Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs Thursday, October 22 Under the Dome Concert Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall Music 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sugar Skulls Gage Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Stitching Hour Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pumpkin Painting Pullman DIY 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Film Screening: Scary Movie 4 (2006) Whitney M. Young, Jr. Film 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Lap-Sit Story Time Little Italy Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Story Time Austin-Irving Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CAPS Meeting: Beat 1611 Roden Business, Law and Money 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Pumpkin Bedazzling Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Candy Crunching Seek-and-Find West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Midday Reset Hegewisch Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Spooky Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 6:45 PM - 7:30 PM Kids' Evening Read Aloud Book Club: The Unlikely Aventuras of Ramón and El Cucuy West Town Book Clubs 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Drop-In After-School Activities Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pickleball - Drills and Skills - Advanced at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM LEGO® Club Austin-Irving Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Game Night with the Sheriff's Department North Austin Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After School Activities / Actividades después de la escuela Sherman Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Spooky Slime Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Mighty Munchkins at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Community 4:50 PM - 5:40 PM Ice Hockey Clinic - Goaltending at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pickleball - Drills and Skills - Beginner at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Fall Canvas Boards Hall Crafts, Games and Play 18:00–20:30 Lecture in Photography and Book Signing with Leigh Raiford Ferguson Lecture Hall – 600 S. Michigan Ave. Arts & Culture 10:15 AM - 10:55 AM Tap & Ballet Partnership at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Performing Arts 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Conditioning at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Sports Conditioning at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Athletic 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pickleball - Dink Dynasty - Advanced Beginner at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Poetry Pop-up: Space Rock Poetry Field Museum Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Medicare 101 North Pulaski Health and Science 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Track and Field 101 at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Adaptive Archery at Offsite Offsite or Online Location Sports 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Cardio Kickboxing at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM Dance - Ballet - Tot 2 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Performing Arts 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Dance - Tap - Adult 2 at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Adult Learn to Play Hockey at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Dance - Stretch/Strength - Adult at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tennis Lessons: NTRP 4.0 - 5.0, Level 4-5 WKSH at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Volleyball League at Mt. Greenwood Mount Greenwood Park Sports 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Moms, Pops & Tots Interaction at Normandy Normandy Park Community 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adaptive Pickleball at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports

Oct 23 31 events

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Zoo Brews: Howls and Growls Lincoln Park Zoo Nightlife $55 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Secrets and Specimens Field Museum Nightlife Ticket required 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Joel Hall Dancers & Center: NextGen at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Performing Arts 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Monster Bash at Eugene Field Field (Eugene) Park Performing Arts 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Meet Jeanerpeton: The Amphibian Ancestor from Illinois Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Family Fun with Musical Guest Laura Doherty Lincoln Belmont Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Classic Film Screening: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Lincoln Belmont Film 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Monster Mash Party at Kelvyn Kelvyn (William) Park Seasonal & Holiday 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Cultural Heritage Experiment (CHE) Lending Day The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), Breasted Hall Arts & Culture 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Amateurs at Indian Boundary Indian Boundary Park Performing Arts 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Film Screening: Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) Back of the Yards Film 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Austin Community Swap Austin DIY 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Golden Hour at Northerly Island Northerly Island Park Community 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Spry Society: Conversation and Games for Older Adults Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Puzzle Club Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Memory Café Field Trip Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Workshops 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Veterans Line Dancing at Kennicott Kennicott (Jonathan) Park Performing Arts 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Basic Computer Skills Help for Seniors West Pullman Computers and Technology 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Coloring for Adults West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM Storytime & Crafts at Bosley Bosley (William) Park Story Time 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Construction Crew Kids Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teen Checkers Open Play Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Junior Detectives at McKiernan Playground McKiernan (David) Park Community 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Teen Soccer at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 6:30 PM - 7:20 PM Learn to Play Hockey - ADM River Pups at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Dance - Jazz - Adult at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Floor Hockey at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Sports 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Cheer Tumbling Int. at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Girls Soccer at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Mommy & Me Yoga at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tennis - TD Sure Shots at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports

Oct 24 82 events

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Haunted Museum The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum Arts & Culture $10 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Haunted Museum The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum Arts & Culture $10 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teen Lit Author Panel: Terrifying Tales with K. Ancrum, Don Martin, and Markelle Grabo Sulzer Regional Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Arts in the Dark Parade at Grant Grant (Ulysses) Park Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Filipino American History Month: Rooted in the Philippines, Created in Chicago Albany Park Celebrations 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Ghoulfest at Gompers Gompers (Samuel) Park Story Time 10:00 AM Walking Tour | Glitterati on the Gold Coast Chicago History Museum Tours Free 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teen Studio Workshop: In the Dark Ryan Learning Center, Studio B Workshops Free / Free, registration required 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pumpkin Patch at Dvorak Dvorak (Anton) Park Seasonal & Holiday 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Gamer's Universe Showdown Series Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Meet Calvin B. Jones: Make a Mini-Mural Harold Washington Library Center Workshops 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM 6th Annual Spooktacular Saturday Woodson Regional Celebrations 7:00 PM - 8:31 PM Campfire Horrors at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Film 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Gallery Meet & Greet - Mike Pocius: Neighborhood Picture Guy Harold Washington Library Center Tours 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Black Panther Party History in Illinois: The South Side Story Walker History and Genealogy 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Zoo Brews: Howls and Growls Lincoln Park Zoo Nightlife $55 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Mitote Día De Los Muertos in La Ronda Parakata at Burnham Burnham (Daniel) Park Festivals & Special Events 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Beatmaker's Toolbox at Steelworkers Steelworkers Park Music 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pumpkin Patch at Margate Margate Park Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Documentary Club: Against the Current with Filmmakers Joshua Jackson and Asif Wilson Manning Film 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Operation Space Station: High Risk Build South Chicago Film 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Fall Nature Walk at Byrnes Byrnes (Marian R.) Park Community 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Get Up & Get Down at Steelworkers Steelworkers Park Athletic 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Family Birthday Story Time Celebration with Ms. My Uptown Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Monster Rocks Oriole Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Make a Moveable Calavera Card with Circuitry Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM OUT at CHM | North Side LGBTQIA+ Stories Walking Tour Chicago History Museum Tours Free 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM RUSH Caring for Caregivers: Dementia Training Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Health and Science 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Trunk-n-Treat at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Five Bands Brotherhood Forum Series: Money, Ownership & Legacy DuSable Black History Museum Arts & Culture 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Trunk or Treat at Hamilton Hamilton (Alexander) Park Seasonal & Holiday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Community Yoga with Collective Yoga Co-Op Austin Workshops Saturday, October 24 Chicago Made Music Showcase Finale Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater Music 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM RiverLab: Intermediate Paddle at Ping Tom Tom (Ping) Memorial Park Athletic 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM LEGO® Family Challenge Obama Presidential Center Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM El Domino: Games, Archives and Puerto Rico Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Chinatown Cultural Reads: The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li Chinatown Book Clubs 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Fall Nature Walk at Byrnes Park Jeffery Manor Workshops 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Reading Room Book Club: Devil in the White City Obama Presidential Center Book Clubs 5:15 PM Film Screening | “Trash Mountain” Chicago History Museum Film 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Yoga for Adults/Yoga para Adultos West Lawn Health and Science 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Chinatown Film 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM DIY Moon Light For Teens North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Kids Graphic Novel Book Club: Ghost Town Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Halloween Party at Commercial Club Commercial Club Playground of Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Bilingual Story Time Back of the Yards Story Time 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Go Run Chicago at Warren Warren (Laurence) Park Athletic 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Renaissance Project Presents LEGO® Club: Meet Dr. Leonidas Berry West Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Dunning Workshops 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM D&D for Adults Club: Savage Worlds Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Film Screening: Minions & Monsters (2026) Independence Film 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Medicare 101 Kelly Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Tween DIY Crafts Garfield Ridge DIY 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Madhatters Story Time Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Ghostly Gatherings: Create Your Own Paranormal Portrait Edgebrook Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Scents of the Season: DIY Simmer Pot Kits Hall DIY 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM LEGO® Club Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM October Adult Book Discussion: We Live Here Now Bucktown-Wicker Park Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 8:30 PM Girls Build! Chicago Center for Arts & Technology Education 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Mini Blueprint For a Book: Get your Story Started Uptown Workshops 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Fall Festival Douglass Celebrations 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Marshall's Crocheting Circle Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Create a Candle Jar with Cricut Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Saturday Afternoon Book Discussion West Lawn Book Clubs 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Tot Play Time Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Saturday Stories and Crafts Bezazian Story Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Chair Meditation with Sahaja Yoga Little Italy Health and Science 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Family Film Screening: Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) West Lawn Film 5:45 PM Film Screening | “City & State Shorts: Journey Within” Chicago History Museum Film 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Open Play South Shore Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Operation Halloween Austin Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Medicare 101 King Health and Science 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go Kits: Chenille Stick Pumpkin Craft Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM RP Mystery Group Rogers Park Book Clubs 18:00–20:00 Arts in the Dark Parade "Photography Guild" Museum of Contemporary Photography Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Kids Martial Arts & Self Defense - Level 2 at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Play School at Addams Addams Clubroom Community 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Dance - Musical Theater - Adult at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Parent & Tot Basketball at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Teen Soccer at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Parent & Tot Baseball at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ISAC Discovery Tour CANCELED due to the Haunted Museum event The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum Tours

Oct 25 27 events

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Trick or Treat Fest at Chase Chase (Salmon) Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM Walking Tour | Historic Prairie Avenue Chicago History Museum Tours Free 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Clothing Swap Logan Square DIY 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Walking History: Exploring Chicago Parks at Palmisano Palmisano (Henry) Park History and Genealogy 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Weapons (2025) Chinatown Film 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Film Screening: Scream 7 (2026) King Film 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM A Quilt is a Poem That We Say Again: Opening Reception Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Family Film Screening: The Addams Family (2019) Back of the Yards Film 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Seed Library Volunteer Day Humboldt Park DIY 6:00 PM Film Screening | “No Hands: The Wild Ride of the Schwinn Bicycle Company” Chicago History Museum Film 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026) Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Film 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Casper (1995) Scottsdale Film 5:30 PM Film Screening | “Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff” Chicago History Museum Film 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM Sunday Market at Jefferson Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park Markets 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sunday Matinee: Dead Ringer (1964) Oriole Park Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Color Me Relaxed Edgewater Arts & Culture 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Open House: New Acquisitions to the Northside Neighborhood History Collection Sulzer Regional History and Genealogy 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Chicago Lawn Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: The Addams Family 2 (2021) Pullman Film 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM KidCinema: Scared Shrekless North Pulaski Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM The Doctor is In: Understanding Diabetes Beverly Health and Science 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Family Gymnastics at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Ice Skating - Intro to Ice Dance at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Performing Arts 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Tennis - JD Super Excellence at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Play School at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Community 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Floor Hockey at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 6:20 PM - 7:00 PM Ice Skating - Ice Dance at McFetridge McFetridge Ice Rink (Indoor) Performing Arts

Oct 26 49 events

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Destination Discovery Story Time - Museum of Ice Cream Museum of Ice Cream Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Psycho (1960) Sulzer Regional Film 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Music with Miss Ruby Edgewater Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM STEAM Day with First Star Force Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Adult Book Club: Orbital Canaryville Book Clubs 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Weird Book Club: The Vegetarian Map Room Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Manning Workshops 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Rogers Park Spooky Music Jam Rogers Park Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Our Once Proud House Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Pumpkins and Potions Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The 10 Most Fascinating Astronomy Images of 2025 Harold Washington Library Center Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Quilling the Stars Dunning Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Avalon Film 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Film Screening: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Greater Grand Crossing Film 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Early Morning Bird Walks at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Outreach 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Recreate a Famous Song Woodson Regional Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Lanterns West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Halloween Family Story Time North Pulaski Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Literary Lounge Book Club: Magical Realism Chinatown Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Art Club Humboldt Park Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Not So Spooky Story Time with Mr. Omar Austin Story Time 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM LEGO® at the Library / LEGO® en la biblioteca Rogers Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AI Safety Part 1: Why AI is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation Woodson Regional Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Better Balance: A Gentle Movement Class for Adults Hegewisch Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Monday Night Open Mic Rogers Park Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Avalon Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Never too Old to Game: Adult Video Gaming West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Mosaic Coasters West Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Medicare Updates Presentation by DFSS Seniors Division Little Village Health and Science 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital Kroc Center Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Tummy Time for Babies Logan Square Story Time 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Teen Grab & Go: Dungeon Crawl Classics Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Video Game Night South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® Club Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM DIY Moon Light For Teens Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Halloween Arts and Crafts at Brooks Brooks (Oscar) Park Seasonal & Holiday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Monday Book Club Edgewater Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Simple Stitches Crochet Club: Study Hall Austin-Irving Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Open Block Play Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tween Grab and Go Kit: Alebrije Masks Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Scary Movie 2 (2001) Legler Regional Film 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Cricut Class: Create a Halloween Design Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Language Discovery at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Education 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Graphic Novel Discussion Rogers Park Book Clubs 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Craft Lab Grab and Go: Magnetic Mini-Canvas Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kids Grab and Go: Pipe Cleaner Ninja Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Soccer - Open at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Sports 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Kilbourn Kilbourn Park Sports 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Adaptive/Veterans Rock Climbing at Offsite Offsite or Online Location Sports

Oct 27 54 events

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: What a Fool Believes: A Memoir by Michael McDonald Hall Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Halloween WeeGroove Music Class Rogers Park Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Luminary Close Look: Lee Miller—Fearless Galleries 1–4 Workshops Luminary receive 2 tickets per household. Email luminary@artic.edu to register. 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Books and Brews Discusses: Orbital Tuman's Tap and Grill Book Clubs 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Terror Tuesdays Week 4: Toho: The House of Giant Monsters Sulzer Regional Writing and Poetry 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM Halloween Pickleball Boo Bash at Sheil Sheil (Bernard) Community Center Park Athletic 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Animal Tales at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Reading Discussion: Cemetery Boys Avalon Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Dracula (1931) Jefferson Park Film 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Talk Story: Pacific and Filipino Voices in the Museum Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Trunk or Treat Back of the Yards Celebrations 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Cybersecurity in the AI Era: Pause. Think. Verify. Edgewater Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 7th Police District Beat Meeting at Hamilton Hamilton (Alexander) Park Community 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Fright Fest: Teen Movie Night King Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids Book Club Dunning Book Clubs 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Nature Story Time at Big Marsh Park Big Marsh Park Story Time 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Homeschool Neighbors Logan Square Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Fall Prevention for Older Adults Manning Health and Science 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion: Liliana's Invincible Summer Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Clark (Richard) Clark (Richard) Park Community 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Sock Hop at Warren Warren (Laurence) Park Music 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM DIY Monster Mask Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mad Science: Monster Mayhem Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Space Earrings Cross Stich South Chicago Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Middle School Makers Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM STEAM Tuesdays Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hiram House of Horrors Kelly Celebrations 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Craft: Spooky Season String Art Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Halloween Art Workshop - Art at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Tuesday Coleman Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Book to Art Club Uptown Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Medicare 101 Woodson Regional Business, Law and Money 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM West Loop Adult Book Club: How to End a Love Story West Loop Book Clubs 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Train or Treat Pumpkin Fitness at Park No. 571 Park No. 571 Athletic 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Medicare Updates Presentation by DFSS Seniors Division Jeffery Manor Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Fall Crafts Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM City Work: Learning About Career Opportunities With the City of Chicago Garfield Ridge Education 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Canvas and Conversation Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Anime and Manga Club Merlo Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Any Book Book Club Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Blood Pressure Screening Brighton Park Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Halloween Arts and Crafts at Brooks Brooks (Oscar) Park Seasonal & Holiday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Book Club Vodak-East Side Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Art of Henna Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Graphic Novel Book Club (Grades 3 to 6): El Deafo Manning Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mini Jack-o-Lanterns West Loop Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Stories in Motion: Early Childhood, Identity, Movement, and Making Field Museum Education Ticket required 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion: One Book, One Chicago Roden Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Rock Painting South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Senior Citizens Club at Don Nash Nash (Don) Community Center Park Community 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Humboldt Humboldt (Alexander Von) Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Smith Smith (Joseph Higgins) Park Athletic 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tiny Tot Tumbling at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Warren Warren (Laurence) Park Athletic

Oct 28 44 events

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Mission Moon Exhibit Tour at the Adler Adler Planetarium Health and Science 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Kids' Cooking Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Library Learning Series: Career Development Wrightwood-Ashburn Jobs and Careers 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Scary-Ka-Dabra: Halloween Magic Show Dunning Celebrations 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Halloween Story Time Party Austin-Irving Story Time 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital Archer Heights Book Clubs 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: The People Under the Stairs (1991) Woodson Regional Arts & Culture 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Cookbook Club: Salty, Cheesy, Herby, Crispy Snackable Bakes Solemn Oath Brewery Book Clubs 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Family Film Night: Monster House (2006) Canaryville Film 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Haunted House Festival at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sugar Skulls Workshop / Taller de Calaveras de Azúcar Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM 1,2,3 Book Club West Belmont Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Palmer Square Palmer (John McAuley) Square Park Community 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Spooky Terrariums Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pour Over Paint: Pumpkins Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Halloween Celebration Blackstone Celebrations 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Samhain Wreath Decorating Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Young Reader's Book Club Mount Greenwood Book Clubs 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Spooky Spectacular Thurgood Marshall Celebrations 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM Tarot Cards at Oriole Park Oriole Park History and Genealogy 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM S is for Spooky Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Haunted Hallway at Franklin Franklin (Benjamin) Park Seasonal & Holiday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Origami Club for Teens Chicago Bee Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Build A Haunted House STEAM Challenge West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Armour Seminar: Rudiger Bieler Field Museum Arts & Culture 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Board Game Wednesdays Walker Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Halloween Bingo Greater Grand Crossing Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Scoob! (2020) Chicago Bee Film 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Teen Book Club: Catching Fire Dunning Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Adulting 101 Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Education 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Ghostober: Ghost in a Jar Manning Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tiny Talkers - Spanish at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Education 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Line Dancing Pullman Arts & Culture 4:45 PM - 7:15 PM Spooky Tattoo Shop Altgeld Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Tot Spot Learning Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: We Have Always Lived In The Castle Rogers Park Writing and Poetry 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Halloween: Resurrection (2002) Legler Regional Film 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen DIY and Crafts Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Indian Boundary Indian Boundary Park Athletic 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Humboldt Humboldt (Alexander Von) Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at McKinley McKinley (William) Park Athletic 5:45 PM - 7:45 PM Basketball - Open at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Sports Fall Festival at Pioneer Court Pioneer Court Community 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at River River Park Athletic

Oct 29 53 events

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Meet a Scientist: Neotropical Bats Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Universe, Black Chicago Aviators and Astronauts Albany Park Workshops 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Lecture: Modern Woman—Mary Cassatt's 1893 Mural for Chicago Rubloff Auditorium Workshops Free / Registration required, free with museum admission 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Tarot Card Reading with Mariah Guzman Hall Workshops 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM Haunted Fieldhouse at Seward Seward (William) Park Seasonal & Holiday 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Film Screening: WarGames (1983) Albany Park Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Polish Genealogy: From Getting Started to Going Deeper Harold Washington Library Center History and Genealogy 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993) Gage Park Film 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Halloween Movie & Slumber Party at Scottsdale Scottsdale Park Family 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Party at Lincoln Lincoln Park - Cultural Center Seasonal & Holiday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Trunk or Treat at Rowan Rowan (William) Park Seasonal & Holiday 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Mount Greenwood Book Clubs 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Miniature Painting Club Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Film Screening: Blue Beetle (2023) Brainerd Film 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Halloween Jewelry Making Workshop with Joy Joshua Whitney M. Young, Jr. Workshops 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Return of the Puking Pumpkin Independence Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Backyard Story Time Vodak-East Side Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Karaoke Night Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Winnemac Winnemac Park Community 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Courtyard Tales: Preschool Story Time by the Book Bird Obama Presidential Center Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ZIL Community Career Navigation Workshop King Jobs and Careers 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hair Braiding Workshop Douglass DIY 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Haunted House Festival at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Halloween Family Movie at Sheil Sheil (Bernard) Community Center Park Seasonal & Holiday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Karaoke Chinatown Arts & Culture 2:30 PM - 4:15 PM Film Screening: Eight Legged Freaks (2002) Sulzer Regional Film 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Next Gen Archers at Gompers Gompers (Samuel) Park Sports 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Tween Halloween Jewelry Making Oriole Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM LEGO Halloween Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hiram House of Horrors Kelly Celebrations 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Sugar Skull Decorating / Decorando calaveras de azúcar West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Read and Chill Uptown Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Halloween Celebration Gage Park Celebrations 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Medicare 101 Pullman Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Party/Fiesta de las brujas Sherman Park Celebrations 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Halloween 3-D Tricks Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Kids and Teen Halloween Party South Shore Celebrations 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Operation Space Station: Science and Survival South Chicago Film 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Spooky Crafternoon South Shore Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Halloween Party at Grand Crossing Grand Crossing Park Seasonal & Holiday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM DIY: Canvas Painting for Kids Brainerd Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Film Screening: Blue Beetle (2023) Little Village Education 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Craft with Climate Kids Club Beverly Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Decorate a Calavera Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Midday Reset Hegewisch Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: The Baby Sitter (1969) Legler Regional Film 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Halloween Bash at Kennedy Kennedy (Dennis) Park Festivals & Special Events 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Thursday Fall Story Times Wrightwood-Ashburn Story Time 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Poetry Pop-up: What Is An Animal Poem? Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Senior Citizens Club at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Community 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Revere Revere (Paul) Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Green Briar Green Briar Park Athletic 18:00–19:30 Lecture with Deborah Willis Ferguson Lecture Hall – 600 S. Michigan Ave. Workshops

Oct 3 80 events

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Meet Chester Commodore: Drawing and Illustration 101 Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Celebrate Little Village Branch's Quinceañera Little Village Celebrations 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Jazz Institute of Chicago presents: Lost in Space with Kevin King Budlong Woods Arts & Culture 10:00 AM OUT at CHM | South Side LGBTQIA+ Stories Trolley Tour Chicago History Museum Tours Free 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM AI+CHI Convening Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM CHI+AI Convening Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pumpkin Patch at Holstein Holstein Park Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Ancient Innovations: ISAC at the South Side Science Festival 5802 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 Arts & Culture Free 09:00 – 12:00 Diplo’s Run Club Humboldt Park Athletic Fall Exhibition Opening Smart Museum of Art Arts & Culture Free 10:30 AM Walking Tour | Pilsen Murals Chicago History Museum Tours Free 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM STEAM-Powered Saturday Harold Washington Library Center Health and Science 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Freaky Fungi Edgewater Health and Science 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Early Bird Walks at NPV North Park Village Nature Center Park Outreach 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Christian Larumbe: Refugio In The Parks at Calumet Calumet Park Music 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Dance Story Time with Tutu School Ballet Lincoln Park Story Time 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Blood on the Clocktower: A Social Deduction Game Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mean Girls Day Screening Archer Heights Film 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Diversity University Summit 2026 Live DuSable Black History Museum Community 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Bollywood Groove Indian Dances & Stories at Holstein Holstein Park Performing Arts 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Curator Tour: The Way of Tea International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $25 – $30 9:30 AM Educator Seminar | Facing Freedom Chicago History Museum Workshops Free 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Silent Read-In Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Adventurers Wanted: Youth Dungeons & Dragons Roden Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Courtyard Tales: Preschool Story Time Obama Presidential Center Story Time 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Pumpkin Patch at Sheridan Sheridan (Philip Henry) Park Seasonal & Holiday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Game On: Board Game Play Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Construyendo Riqueza Generacional: Pasando Conocimiento, No Solo Dinero Portage-Cragin Business, Law and Money 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Hispanic Heritage Month: Papel Picado Workshop Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Junta Jazz Ensemble Wrightwood-Ashburn Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ARCE-ISAC Joint Lecture: Using Declassified U-2 Spy Photos for a Remote Archaeological Survey in Egypt Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Workshops 18:00:00 – 22:30:00 Columbian Ball Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Art of Paper Magic: Origami for Everyone Near North Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Community Yoga at the Library Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Health and Science 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Nonfiction Book Discussion: The City Is Up for Grabs Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Butterfly Haven Yoga Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Arts & Culture $24 – $30 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Medicare 101 on Saturday Roden Health and Science 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Fall Fest at Athletic Field Athletic Field Park Festivals & Special Events 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Live Music Performance: Punk Rock with Perro Mundo Back of the Yards Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Children's Halloween Costume Swap Edgebrook DIY 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Bike Maintenance Legler Regional DIY 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Come Out and Play): A Movement Workshop Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM Commemorative Day | Latine Heritage Month Chicago History Museum Tours 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Comic Book Roundtable: Vampire Comics Sulzer Regional Book Clubs 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Puppet Story Time with Rocio "Chio" Cabrera Logan Square Story Time 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM CDPH Presents: Hypertension and Blood Pressure Screening/CDPH Presenta: Hipertensión y examen de la presión arterial Toman Health and Science 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM DadTime: Stories, Play and More Uptown Story Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Organizing & Preserving Your Photo Collection With Jennifer Orr Blackstone Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Adult Book Club: The Mayor of Maxwell Street Avalon Book Clubs 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Native Flower Mosaics Harold Washington Library Center DIY 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: Coco (2017) Budlong Woods Film 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Field Adventures West Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Planner Meet Up Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Older is Bolder: An Introduction to Oral History Harold Washington Library Center Education 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Mad Hatters Story Time Edgewater Story Time 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Bird Identification Walk Little Italy Health and Science 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Milk and Cookies Book Club: See the Ghost West Loop Book Clubs 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Go Run Chicago at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Athletic 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM D&D for Adults Club: Savage Worlds Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Weekend LEGO® Club North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sew a Yoga Strap Legler Regional DIY 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Love Yourself Ballet Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM First Saturdays Stitch-a-Palooza Uptown Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Service Learning Club Sulzer Regional Workshops 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Film Screening: Toy Story 5 (2026) Wrightwood-Ashburn Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Haunted Mansion (2023) North Austin Film 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Saturday Story Time Roden Story Time 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Crafting Saturdays: Wooden Coaster Painting South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Blood Drive with Versiti Blood Center of Illinois Independence Health and Science Día de los Muertos Tasting Dinner with Chef Richard Sandoval Toro Community 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go Kits: Candy Corn Foam Magnet Craft Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Cardio Kickboxing Legler Regional Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Decoupage Wooden Trays Hall Crafts, Games and Play 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Field Trip to Hack for Access (Deaf & HOH) at Park No. 596 Brighton Park Community Campus (Park No. 596) Community 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Ice Skating - Freestyle Ice Pre-Alpha-Delta at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pickleball - Open at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Gymnastics at Jefferson Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park Sports 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Drop-In Camp at Marquette Marquette (Jacques) Park Community 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Basketball Skills at Marquette Marquette (Jacques) Park Sports First Lady x The Northman Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community

Oct 30 43 events

7:00 PM - 11:00 PM MEMENTO MORI Halloween Gala International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $100.00 - $150.00 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Meet a Scientist: Spooky Spider Webs Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Calaveritas Literarias: A Día de Muertos Writing Tradition Ryerson & Burnham Libraries Workshops Free / Free with museum admission, no registration required 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Family Field Nights: Boo with SUE Field Museum Nightlife Ticket required 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Film Screening: The Bad Seed (1956) Mayfair Film 5:30 PM Partner Event | Film Screening – “Christian Holder: My Life is Dance” Chicago History Museum Film Free 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Movies in the Parks at Athletic Field Athletic Field Park Film 7:00 PM - 8:40 PM Campfire Horrors at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Film 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Frights & Freestyles: Teen Open Mic Contest Woodson Regional Arts & Culture 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM Spooky Movie and Bonfire at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Family 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Medicare Updates Presentation by DFSS Seniors Division Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Health and Science 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween-a-Palooza at Green Briar Green Briar Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Halloween Magic Mania at Haas Haas (Joseph) Park Seasonal & Holiday 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM Haunted House at Pottawattomie Pottawattomie Park Seasonal & Holiday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Day of the Dead Celebration at Vittum Vittum (Harriet Elizabeth) Park Seasonal & Holiday 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Boo-tiful Adventure at Galewood Galewood Park Sports 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM A "Sinners" Musical Journey: Delta to Chicago Blues with Vino Louden Sulzer Regional Arts & Culture 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Halloween Story Time Party Rogers Park Celebrations 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Film Screening: The Craft Legacy (2020) Back of the Yards Film 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Primate (2026) Mayfair Film 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM Horror Movie Marathon Little Village Arts & Culture 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Halloween Bash at LeClaire-Hearst LeClaire-Hearst Park Seasonal & Holiday 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Party at West Lawn West Lawn Park Seasonal & Holiday 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM 7th and 8th Grade Halloween Dance at Rainey Rainey (Edward) Park Performing Arts 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teens Silent Halloween Party South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Community Halloween Party at Sauganash Sauganash Park Seasonal & Holiday 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM 16th Ward Halloween Kickback at Lindblom Lindblom (Robert) Park Community 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Fall Preschool Story Time Little Italy Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM YOUmedia Spooky Game Day: One Night Ultimate Werewolf Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Adult Book Discussion: One Book, One Chicago Roden Book Clubs 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Día de los Muertos Grab and Go Kits Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Haunted House Festival at Pulaski Pulaski (Casimer) Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Learn Chess Basics for Adults Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Halloween Costume Parade (ASMG) at Gately Gately (James) Park Sports 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Stay and Play Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Girls Volleyball League at Mt. Greenwood Mount Greenwood Park Athletic Sightseeing River & Lake Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community 18:30–20:00 Panel Discussion: Performance to Camera Museum of Contemporary Photography Workshops 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Athletic Field Athletic Field Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at McGuane McGuane (John) Park Athletic Chicago by Night River & Lake Cruise Chicago's First Lady Cruises Community 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teen Checkers Open Play Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 20% off Core Products at City Cruises City Cruises Markets

Oct 31 31 events

18:30 – 22:00 Haunted Halsted Halloween Parade Halsted & Aldine (Parade Start) Parade 12:30 PM Partner Event | Film Screening – “Christian Holder: My Life is Dance” Chicago History Museum Film Free 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Coco (2017) Obama Presidential Center Arts & Culture 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Halloween Bash Altgeld Celebrations 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Treats on the Trail at NPV North Park Village Nature Center Park Seasonal & Holiday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Mad Hatters Story Time Albany Park Story Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Not‑So‑Scary Family Halloween Stories, Costumes and Glow Fun with Ms. My Uptown Story Time 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: Casper (1995) Thurgood Marshall Film 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Skulls & Sweets: Sugar Skull Decorating Scottsdale Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Haunted House at Columbus Columbus (Christopher) Park Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Halloween Glow Party Greater Grand Crossing Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Halloween Photoshoot and DIY Trick-or-Treat Bags North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Halloween Story Time Little Italy Story Time 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Little Boo Bash Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993) Chicago Bee Film 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Albany Park Workshops 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM DIY: Halloween Slime Party Brainerd DIY 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Courtyard Tales: Preschool Story Time Obama Presidential Center Story Time 2:15 PM - 4:30 PM Film Screening: Nosferatu (2025) Coleman Film 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: The Midnight Library Pullman Book Clubs 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Artful Afternoon Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Halloween Parade Roden Celebrations 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Make and Take Crafternoon: Halloween Celebration South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Go Run Chicago at Big Marsh Big Marsh Park Athletic 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go Kits: Ghost Tree Scene Craft Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Halloween Fun Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Washington Washington (George) Park Athletic 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Athletic Doggy (And Kitty) Halloween Costume Party & Parade Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Community 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Cardio Tennis Partnership at Hale Hale (Nathan) Park Athletic The Midway of Wonders The Hand and the Eye Community

Oct 4 32 events

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Earth Jam & Family Day in Sankofa for the Earth at Burnham Burnham (Daniel) Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sensory Friendly Film Screening: Beetlejuice (1988) Archer Heights Film 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Harvest Fest at Indian Boundary Indian Boundary Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM Walking Tour | Mary Bartelme Park and Beyond in the West Loop Chicago History Museum Tours Free 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Play For All Chicago Children's Museum Family Free (with pre-registration) / Free admission with pre-registration required 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Entonces... ¿Qué es la IA? / What is AI, Anyway? Humboldt Park Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Kelly Film 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM World Music Festival Chicago at Humboldt Humboldt (Alexander Von) Park Music 1:30 PM - 3:45 PM Film Screening: Apollo 13 (1995) Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: El Cantante (2006) Pullman Film 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Scream (1996) Scottsdale Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Cine en Español: El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth(2006) North Pulaski Film 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Monarch Migration Nature Walks Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Family 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Entrepreneurship in Jewelry-Making With Joy Joshua Toman Business, Law and Money 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Club de Lectura en Español: Rebeldes / S.E. Hinton Little Village Book Clubs 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM 3D Printing 101 Roden Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Family Film Screening: Goosebumps (2019) Back of the Yards Film 12:00 PM Van Tour | Bronzeville Chicago History Museum Tours Free 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM WTTW Kids Learn & Play West Town Workshops 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Chicago Lawn Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wici Song and Dance Company: Celebrating the Music & Dance of Poland Roden Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Mosaic Basics Workshop McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Kick off to Día de los Muertos Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Family 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM City-Wide Symphony Orchestra Concert at Jefferson Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park Music 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Thurgood Marshall Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Jefferson Park Story Time 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Film Screening: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) King Film 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Selena (1997) South Chicago Film 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Board Games and Puzzles Exchange Edgewater Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stitch Circle Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Marriage on the Rocks Merlo Film 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM Park, Tailgate & Sail Harry Caray's Navy Pier Community

Oct 5 55 events

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Chicago's Electric Blues Heritage and History: Diddley Bow Workshop Rogers Park Workshops 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Behind Us We Are You: An Artist Talk with Atlan Arceo-Witzl Archer Heights Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Gallery Conversation: Beyond Form—Abstraction at Midcentury Meet in Gallery 124 Tours Free / Free, no registration required 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Meet Geraldine Lane Mardis: A Hands-on Beauty Workshop Woodson Regional Workshops 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wycinanki: The Art of Polish Paper Cutouts Portage-Cragin Celebrations 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Older is Bolder: Artist Talk Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Monday Matinee: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) Edgewater Film 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM AI Safety Discussion Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Community Closet at Austin Austin DIY 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Notable News in Space Science with Northwestern's CIERA Rogers Park Health and Science 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Avalon Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Quilling the Stars Legler Regional Arts & Culture 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM Teen Maker Monday: Fall Sip and Paint King Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Banned Books Week Discussion Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Crafting the Archives: Talavera Art Bird Houses Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM DIY Galaxy Keychain and Bookmark for Teens King Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Kids' Film Screening: Minions and Monsters (2026) Lincoln Belmont Film 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Landscape Painting Workshop Brighton Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Film Screening: Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) Greater Grand Crossing Film 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Trivia Night at Canaryville: Spooktacular Edition Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Silent Disco and Study Douglass Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: Project Hail Mary (2026) West Belmont Film 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM LED Magic Wands West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Polish American Literature: Women, Immigration, and Representation Harold Washington Library Center History and Genealogy 4:30 PM - 6:45 PM Teen Game Night Altgeld Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Learn to Play Chess Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Making Art with Bernadette Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Brainerd Story Time 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Wrightwood-Ashburn Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Vinyl Cutting Hour Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Adult Book Discussion Group at Pete's Pizza #2 Pete's Pizza #2 Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM YOUmedia Studio Certification Training Chicago Bee Computers and Technology 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Basic Computer Training Woodson Regional Computers and Technology 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Make-Believe Monday Play Group Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Tummy Time Lincoln Park Story Time 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Retro Video Games Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen Art Club: Lil Monsters Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pumpkin Patch Crafts Mount Greenwood Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Video Game Night South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM LEGO® Club Portage-Cragin Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Drop-in Toddler Garden Hour at Union Union Park Community 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Paint and Chill Thurgood Marshall Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Mayfair Improv Club Mayfair Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Tech Help for Beginners Hall Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Landscape Painting with Seanice Lenay Dunning Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After School LEGO® Club Lincoln Park Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM LEGO® Club Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CAPS Meeting: Beat 424 South Chicago Business, Law and Money 12:15 PM - 3:00 PM Workshop: Drawing & Painting from a Still Life Bucktown-Wicker Park Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM Film Screening: Tarot Sulzer Regional Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ICASH Unclaimed Property Legler Regional Business, Law and Money 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM Barre Sculpt at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Basketball at Sherwood Sherwood (Jesse) Park Sports 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Womens Volleyball League at Oriole Oriole Park Sports 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Kiddie College at Bradley Bradley (Josephine) Park Community

Oct 6 76 events

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Meet Geraldine Lane Mardis: A Hands-on Beauty Workshop Pullman Workshops 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Kosciuszko Kosciuszko (Thadeuz) Park Community 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Salsa Moves and Latin Grooves: A Senior-Friendly Latiné Heritage Celebration Woodson Regional Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Find Your Sound: Music Production Douglass Arts & Culture 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Filipino American History Month Introduction to Bookbinding North Pulaski Workshops 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Terror Tuesdays Week 1: Black and White on a Budget Sulzer Regional Writing and Poetry 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Palmistry 101: The Story in Your Hands West Loop Workshops 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Polish Chicago Tour Bucktown-Wicker Park Tours 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Bike Basics With Xail Back of the Yards DIY 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Meet Chester Commodore: Drawing and Illustration 101 Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Día de los Muertos Celebration Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Celebrations 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Tuesdays with Menopause: Menopause for Partners, Family and Friends Sulzer Regional Health and Science 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Reimagining Aging: Finding Joy, Purpose, and Possibility After 50 Near North Writing and Poetry 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Hocus Pocus (1993) Toman Film 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Patch Bar with Somos Arte Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Banned Book Discussion: Bridge to Terabithia Rogers Park Book Clubs 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Greater Grand Crossing Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Sewing Hour: Costume Edition! Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Operation Space Station: High Risk Build Douglass Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Science Is Fun: Oobleck Experiment Edgewater Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM GarageBand Open Studio South Chicago Workshops 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Kid's Storytime at Plaza Huitzil Back of the Yards Story Time 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Behind the Mic: Finding Your Voice in Music Production Legler Regional Arts & Culture 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Preschool Story Time/La Hora Del Cuento Toman Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Mindful Yoga Near North Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Space Earrings Cross Stich Back of the Yards Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Film Screening: Abigail (2024) South Shore Film 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Zoning and Land Use 101 with MPC Legler Regional Business, Law and Money 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Film Screening: Her (2013) Albany Park Film 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM TikTok Tuesday Kelly Arts & Culture 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Frankenstein (1931) Jefferson Park Film 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Micromobility Town Hall #3 at Online Offsite or Online Location Community 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Teen Anime Night South Shore Arts & Culture 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Bridgeport Knitting Circle Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Beginners Reading Club Chicago Lawn Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Mad Science: Monster Mayhem Avalon Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Space Game Night West Lawn Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Brainerd Bakers: Snoop Dogg's Treats to Eat Brainerd DIY 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids Create: Fingerprint Drawing Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Graphic Novel Book Club - Squad Logan Square Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Brick by Brick: LEGO® Library Builders Oriole Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Microsoft 101 Lozano Computers and Technology 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Healthy Aging With Rush Vodak-East Side Health and Science 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Card Game Club Austin-Irving Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Teen Craft Tuesday: Beaded Spiders West Lawn Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sip and Paint for Tweens Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Open Art Studio Merlo Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Afterschool Snack and Chill Brainerd Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Pokémon® Play and Create Edgebrook Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tween Tuesday: Galaxy Jars Archer Heights Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM STEAM Tuesdays Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Primate (2026) Whitney M. Young, Jr. Arts & Culture 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Creative Writing Partnership at White (Willye B.) White (Willye B.) Park Writing and Poetry 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Mix and Make Dough Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Craft: Button Making Little Italy Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM Blood Drive with the American Red Cross Independence Health and Science 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM Open Art Studio Austin Arts & Culture 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM The A, B, C & D’s of Medicare Lincoln Park Health and Science 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time Humboldt Park Story Time 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Bilingual Story Time West Loop Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Create Club Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Play Bucktown-Wicker Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Grab and Go: Make Your Own Crystal Ball South Shore Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Game Day Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Bucktown-Wicker Park Story Time 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Learn Computer Basics Legler Regional Computers and Technology 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Computer Basics: Excel 101 Harold Washington Library Center Computers and Technology 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Embossed Cards Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Make Something Awesome: Fall Scratch Art South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Adult Volleyball Skills at Addams Addams (Jane) Park Sports 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Resume Clinic Hall Jobs and Careers 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Benefits Access Support with Hunger Free America Avalon Health and Science 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Locker Mirror Decoration Douglass DIY 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Arts & Crafts at Hamlin Hamlin (Hannibal) Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tennis Rating Clinic at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Free Laminating Service Legler Regional DIY

Oct 7 82 events

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Uptown Story Time 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Sigamos Adelante: Community and Career Fair Field Museum Arts & Culture Included with admission 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Morbid Curiosities! Surgical History Tour International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture $30 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Little Ghouls & Grown Ups: Pumpkin Painting at Madigan Madigan (Michael J., Sr.) Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Physics of Project Hail Mary Near North Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Space Game Night West Englewood Arts & Culture 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM My First Book Club Mount Greenwood Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening: Monsters, Inc. (2001) Chicago Bee Film 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ¡Viva Cumbia! Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Polish Chicago Tour West Town Tours 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Nature Oasis: Community Bonfire at Buena Circle Buena Circle Park Community 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM Craft Your Own Kite with Windy City Kite Club Northtown Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Watch and Craft: Dolores (2017) Archer Heights Film 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Mother Goose on the Loose Story Time with Ms. My Uptown Story Time 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Bad Art Afternoon Lozano Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Rooted for Fall: Plant Propagation for Your Home South Chicago DIY 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Make a Magic Potion West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Coding Kinetics Workshop Series: Web Development Basics Mayfair Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Meet: Fritz Pollard - The Fredrick Douglass of Football – Make a Team Pennant Legler Regional Workshops 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Banned Book Charms Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Classic Film Screening: The Fly (1986) Rogers Park Film 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Story Time in Commercial Park Commercial Club Park Story Time 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Drop-In Toddler Garden Hour at Gage Gage (George) Park Community 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Managing Money: Caregiving and Early Planning West Town Workshops 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Windy City Bird Lab: Birds in my Neighborhood Vodak-East Side Health and Science 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Tot Spot Learning Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Avalon Grooves: Salsa Dance Lesson Avalon Workshops 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Wonder Wednesday Thurgood Marshall Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Spooky DIY Day: Plushie Taxidermy Craft Gage Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM WTTW Kids Learn & Play Sulzer Regional Workshops 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Storytime, One Chicago King Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Milk and Cookies: Kids Book Club Avalon Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Travel to Japan with the Consulate-General of Japan Harold Washington Library Center History and Genealogy 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM Film Screening: Hoppers (2026) Lincoln Park Film 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM LEGO® Club Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Teens Open Art Studio South Chicago Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Board Game Wednesdays Walker Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Musical Jeopardy and Trivia Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Teen DIY and Crafts Budlong Woods Crafts, Games and Play 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Mother Goose on the Loose Story Time Lincoln Park Story Time 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Art Club Oriole Park Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Film Screening: The Sheep Detectives (2026) Austin Film 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Heart of Darkness Bezazian Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Skills for Disagreeing Better Edgewater Workshops 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Pobody's Nerfect! Craft Club for Adults Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM One Story Time, One Chicago Douglass Story Time 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Makeup Rogers Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Indigenous Peoples' Day Book Discussion Back of the Yards Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Kids' Cooking Demo / Cocinando con Niños Back of the Yards DIY 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Stitching Group Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Canvas and Conversation North Austin DIY 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Chatty Crafters Clearing Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Snack Taste Test Manning DIY 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Armour Seminar: Bernard Goffinet Field Museum Arts & Culture 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Crochet for Beginners with Little Village Busy Bees / Tejer para Principiantes con Little Village Busy Bees Toman Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Gamer's Choice McKinley Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:30 PM - 6:45 PM Teen Paint and Sip Altgeld Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Taller de Seguridad Alimentaria Little Village Health and Science 6:30 PM Partner Event | Chamber Music Immersive: President’s Playlist Chicago History Museum Music 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® Club Bucktown-Wicker Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Stretch and Create to Celebrate Polish Heritage West Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Young at Heart: Short Story Discussion Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Game Night Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® at the Library Chinatown Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Toddler Time Lincoln Belmont Story Time 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Luxury Candle Making Wrightwood-Ashburn Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Retro Game Day: Tabletop Game Play Near North Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Dominoes Game Day Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Story Time Lincoln Park Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Block Play Daley, Richard J.-Bridgeport Crafts, Games and Play 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Preschool Story Time Mount Greenwood Story Time 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Wednesday Workshop North Pulaski Crafts, Games and Play 8:00 PM - 8:45 PM Adult Self Defense & Kickboxing Workshop at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Workshops 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tween Hangout Dunning Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM WTTW First Wednesday Field Museum Community Free / Free General Admission 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM LEGO® and Games Club Lincoln Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Veterans Boxing, Strength & Conditioning at Park No. 571 Park No. 571 Athletic 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Veterans Indoor Rowing at Park No. 571 Park No. 571 Athletic 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Volleyball League at Broadway Armory Broadway Armory Park Sports Fall Festival at Pioneer Court Pioneer Court Community 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Sailing Beginning Racing at Online Judd Goldman Cmty Sailing Ctr Sports Market Days at Pioneer Court Pioneer Court Community

Oct 8 53 events

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Fall Tree Identification and Guided Walking Tour Harold Washington Library Center Health and Science 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM RiverLab: Sunset Paddle at Ping Tom Tom (Ping) Memorial Park Athletic 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Nahui Ollin Aztec Dance at West Lawn West Lawn Park Performing Arts 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Japanese Bookbinding Workshop: Goshuinchō & Yotsume Toji International Museum of Surgical Science Arts & Culture 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Film Screening & Community Conversation: Operation Space Station Harold Washington Library Center Arts & Culture Micheal O’Siadhail – Poetry Reading with Q&A American Writers Museum Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM The Universe, Black Chicago Aviators and Astronauts Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Health and Science 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Create a Personal Archive Little Village Arts & Culture 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Operation Space Station: Science and Survival Douglass Film 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM Adaptive Cycling Challenge at Lincoln Park Lincoln (Abraham) Park Athletic 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Zap! Storytime With Brookfield Zoo Chicago Austin Story Time 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM STEAM Day McKinley Park Computers and Technology 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at West Lawn West Lawn Park Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Bilingual Story Time Portage-Cragin Story Time 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM Contemporary Book Discussion: One Book, One Chicago Lincoln Park Book Clubs 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM Grab and Go: DIY Masquerade Mask Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM Filmmaking 101: Chat with a Filmmaker Austin Workshops 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Cookie Club Independence Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sensory STEAM with the Forest Preserves of Cook County Beverly Health and Science 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Resume Writing Workshop Chicago Bee Education 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM The Thursday Night Supper Club: Discover a Recipe, Cook and Share Roden Book Clubs 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Boxing Show at Fuller Fuller (Melville) Park Athletic 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Mystery Book Club - How to Solve Your Own Murder Logan Square Book Clubs 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM After School Craft: Shrinky Dink Charms Humboldt Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Book Discussion: Orbital Hegewisch Book Clubs 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM One Story Time, One Chicago Archer Heights Story Time 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Baby Lap-Sit Story Time Little Italy Story Time 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion: Orbital by Samantha Harvey Albany Park Book Clubs 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Crafting Circle Sulzer Regional Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Film Screening: Monster House (2006) Gage Park Film 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Story Time and Talk with Baobab Tree Children's House Manning Story Time 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Children's Craft Night: Junk Journals Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM Get Your Blood Pressure Checked for Free with CDPH Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Adult Book Discussion: Lone Women Garfield Ridge Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Learn about Medicare Options Budlong Woods Health and Science 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Explore STEAM: Mini Flashlight Greater Grand Crossing Health and Science 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Hands-on STEAM Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Adult Book Discussion Walker Book Clubs 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen Design Den: Arts and Crafts Coleman Computers and Technology 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Preschool Story Time and Play Group Budlong Woods Story Time 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Halloween Scavenger Hunt Jeffery Manor Crafts, Games and Play 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Candy Crunching Seek-and-Find West Englewood Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Teen UNO Tournament Harold Washington Library Center Crafts, Games and Play 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Let's Draw with the Smart Drawing Robot Daley, Richard M.-W Humboldt Crafts, Games and Play 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Fall Canvas Boards Hall Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Writing - Prose Partnership at Homan Square Homan Square Community Center Park Writing and Poetry 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Womens Veterans Walking Club at McKinley McKinley (William) Park Athletic 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Pickleball - Open at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM CAPS Meeting Beat 2534 North Pulaski Business, Law and Money 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Ice Skating - Parent-Tot Skate at McFetridge McFetridge Ice Rink (Indoor) Athletic 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Lamination Station Clearing DIY 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM After School Activities / Actividades después de la escuela Sherman Park Crafts, Games and Play 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Ice Skating - Parent-Tot Skate at McFetridge McFetridge Sports Center Sports

Oct 9 38 events

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Transilience: Chicago Trans Pride Festival at Eckhart Eckhart (Bernard) Park Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda del Valle: eL Cien Poetry Workshop Bezazian Writing and Poetry 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Contra Dance to Baba Yaga's Stew at Pottawattomie Pottawattomie Park Performing Arts 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Heart of the Story at Douglass Douglass (Anna and Frederick) Park Performing Arts 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Jazz City at Clarendon Clarendon Community Center Park Music 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Movies in the Parks at Bosley Bosley (William) Park Music 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Teen Lit Night: Unbound Harold Washington Library Center Writing and Poetry 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Beginning Birding with Chicago Bird Alliance South Shore Nature Sanctuary Health and Science Lincoln Park Wine Fest Jonquil Park Festivals & Special Events 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Exploring the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope Harold Washington Library Center Book Clubs 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Film Screening: Space Men (2016) Budlong Woods Film 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM The No Book Club Edgewater Book Clubs 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Second Friday LEGO® Club West Belmont Crafts, Games and Play 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Merlo Film 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Field Adventures with the Field Museum Legler Regional Crafts, Games and Play 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM Campfire Horrors at Bosley Bosley (William) Park Music 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Fall Preschool Story Time Little Italy Story Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Coloring for Adults West Pullman Crafts, Games and Play 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Teen Paint and Sip Whitney M. Young, Jr. Crafts, Games and Play 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Bingo and Loteria / Bingo y Lotería Sherman Park Crafts, Games and Play 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Homeschool Family Meet Up Garfield Ridge Crafts, Games and Play 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Open Play Time Jefferson Park Crafts, Games and Play 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM Exhale: A Friday Wind-Down for Juniors & Seniors Kelly Arts & Culture 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Learn about Medicare Options Jefferson Park Health and Science 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM One Storytime, One Chicago Walker Story Time 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Film Screening: Scary Movie (2026) Wrightwood-Ashburn Film 2:30 PM Partner Event | John Prine’s Chicago Chicago History Museum Tours 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Construction Crew Kids Canaryville Crafts, Games and Play 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Medicare: Annual Enrollment Guide Wrightwood-Ashburn Health and Science 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Teen Checkers Open Play Back of the Yards Crafts, Games and Play 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Basic Computer Skills Help for Seniors West Pullman Computers and Technology 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Paint a Canvas Tote Bag Hegewisch Crafts, Games and Play 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM Stick & Puck at McFetridge McFetridge Ice Rink (Indoor) Athletic 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Bingo at McKinley McKinley (William) Park Crafts, Games and Play 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Basketball - Open at Chase Chase (Salmon) Park Sports 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pre-K Open Gym at Morgan Park SC Morgan Park Sports Center Park (Park No. 577) Athletic 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Seed Library: Seeds Available Austin DIY Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History Driehaus Museum Community