Joliet Public Library

One thing that gets me through the winters in Joliet is the Danish concept of comfort, coziness and the simple things in life, referred to as hygge. The Joliet Public Library can be a place to experience that and disconnect.

The Joliet Public Library is getting ready to start Black Road Branch remodeling by late spring after the city agreed to a $3.5 million loan.

On a 6-3 vote, the City Council on Tuesday approved a $3.5 million loan to the Joliet Public Library for remodeling the Black Road Branch.

The Joliet City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to make the loan, which would finance remodeling at the Black Road Branch.

The city of Joliet will host a free workshop on emergency and disaster preparedness at the Joliet Public Library on Wednesday,

Cast set for developments in Joliet for the coming year.

The City Council will vote Tuesday on a $3.5 million loan to the Joliet Public Library to remodel the Black Road Branch.

Mike Rank, who served as the children’s librarian at the Joliet Public Library's downtown branch for seven years, died in 2024. He is remembered for his "unique gift for connecting with kids and teens."

Standing just west of Essington Road, the Joliet Public Library's Black Road Branch sits on the Rock Run Forest Preserve. It offers lively programs for all ages and circulates 30,000 books per month.

Here are five ways to ensure the holidays are merry and bright for people and pets in need in Will County.

Joliet Public Library hosts public grand opening for NASA's “Discover Exoplanets: The Search for Alien Worlds” on Dec. 11.

Spirits with the Spirits starts at 4:30 p.m. with lessons to learn the “Thriller” dance at the Joliet Public Library at 150 N. Ottawa St. and continues through the night.

Joliet Library wants to start remodeling project in 2025 on Black Road Branch, but needs City Council OK for increase in property tax levy.

State Senator Rachel Ventura announced she will be hosting a town hall at the Joliet Public Library Black Road Branch to discuss the planned sale of Ascension St. Joseph–Joliet hospital to Prime HealthCare.

In addition to thousands of books, the Friends of the Joliet Public Library sale will include audiobooks, computer games, movies, music and puzzles,

The city of Joliet on Wednesday announced that two major parking lots downtown will be closed, but the city is offering free parking at its Ottawa Street deck for library, business patrons.

The Joliet Public Library's JPL On-the-Go outreach van features books, a bubble machine, exterior awning, mobile WI-FI and a TV screen.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, who's young adult Alice series is among the most frequently challenged or banned books, shares how growing up in Joliet shaped her writing.

Uxmar Torres, 28, of Joliet, is a Joliet Junior College employee and organizer of Bicentennial Park’s first poetry open mic night on April 5.

The Joliet Public Library hosted its annual Star Wars Day event at the Ottawa Street branch and the Joliet Area Historical Society welcome artists, fans, and cosplayers from around the Chicagoland area.

"Travel Through the Pages” is the theme for the Joliet Public Library’s 2024 summer reading program. Staff handcrafted much of the themed decor, including "hot air balloons" and a a real HO scale train "driving" through the hollowed-out pages of a book.

What started with a group of Star Wars fans and youth librarians in the early 2010s, blossomed into the epic event it is today.

The Star Wars doll exhibit is at the library’s branch in downtown until June 2. Artist will make presentation on Star Wars Day.

Star Wars Day is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 1 in downtown Joliet.

Joliet resident Jim Healy will present an original one-man play about Louis Jolliet Wednesday at the Joliet Public Library.

The Friends of the Joliet Public Library is a group of dedicated volunteers and fundraisers that deserves recogition.

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.

Joliet Jewish Congregation is hosting an open house on Sunday. And then on Tuesday, Rabbi Jenny Steinberg-Martinez and congregation member Kathleen Szwed, will host an educational program at the Joliet Public Library.

The Violins of Hope exhibit is possible through the Joliet Public Library's partnership with the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago.

Comicopolis, an annual Comic and Fandom Con, returns Saturday at the Lockport branch of the White Oak Public Library District.

The Joliet Public Library's Royal Faire event was part of the “reading is enchanting” theme of the library’s summer reading program.

United Cerebral Palsy-Center for Disability Services in Joliet is hosting its third annual Great American Big Wheel Race on July 22 at Joliet Memorial Stadium.

Open house is 4 to 7 p.m. at Joliet Public Library downtown branch.

Each month, the youth art gallery at the Joliet Public Library will feature 19 pieces of art created by students at Joliet Public School District 86.

The Joliet Public Library is hosting“The Questioneers: Read. Question. Think. PLAY!” exhibit through July 29 at its Ottawa Street branch.

Local residents are invited to ask questions about state resources and provide feedback on legislative priorities at State Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel’s, D-Shorewood, upcoming Coffee and Conversation event from 10 a.m. to noon June 27 at the Joliet Public Library.