Joliet Public Library

Tom Hernandez came to District 202 in 2006 as its director of community relations and remained in that role in 2003. Hernandez was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.

Skip Griparis and his Big Little Band will perform a lively tribute to the Rockabilly Heroes on Saturday at the Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park Theatre in Joliet.

When spring hits, we have been planning for summer, maybe even fall. Especially at Joliet Public Library, we began planning for our Summer Reading Challenge and of course, the epic Star Wars Day the first Saturday in June.

Local history librarian at the Joliet Public Library, Anneta Drilling Sowa doesn’t need convincing about the value of remembering. She has worked at the Joliet Public Library for almost 36 years.

The $6.3 million state grant made to the Joliet Public Library helped make remodeling of the Ottawa Branch possible.

You don’t have to have a Joliet Public Library card to participate in the programs and they are always free.

The Joliet Public Library is quite friendly and offers reading programs, events and guest passes for computers even if you don’t have a card. But the library has big goals this year, and one of them is to increase our number of cardholders.

State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel invites the public to attend her traveling office hours at the Joliet Public Library Black Road Branch on Thursday.

Joliet Library officials say they have not decided what to do with Book and Bean Cafe space, but library cafes are on the decline.

The Book and Bean Cafe will serve its last cup of coffee for Joliet library patrons later this month. Tammy and Grady Duckworth have run popular cafe since 2011.

But Book and Bean in Joliet was more than a community café. It was hub for local artists.

The Joliet Public Library Book Group celebrated its 25th anniversary on Tuesday with bakery from the Book and Bean Café at the Black Road branch, where book group meets. The book group offers monthly meetings in the morning and in the evening.

The Digital Media Studio, known as the DMS, a hidden gem located in the lower level of the recently remodeled downtown branch of the Joliet Public Library.

Sale in includes movies, music and more Oct. 20-22 at Black Road Branch

Public libraries in Joliet and Bolingbrook have become the latest victims of bomb threats that have affected libraries in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.