Upcoming Events

This hybrid educational seminar will help you understand your Medicare choices. Learn about Medicare A & B, Supplemental Insurance, Part D (Prescription Drug), Medicare Advantage, their costs and how each option works.

Create a stained glass decorative jar using tissue paper. All supplies will be provided. Registration with a CLPL card is required.

Bring the family and enjoy a story time together. Prepare to dance and sing! Registration is required. 

Calling all writers! Join us our monthly writers' group. Bring your current work in progress or drafts to work or receive feedback on, or just connect with fellow local writers in a casual, loose structure environment.

Join us for a special story time for preschoolers that includes stories, songs and a fun craft. Registration with a CLPL card is required.

If your favorite book be dazzling you, you can bedazzle your book!  Bring your own book to embellish and personalize with library supplied gems. All decorating materials provided. Registration required. 

 We'll put a spring in your step during this special story time focused on music and dance. Registration with a CLPL card is required.

Individuals with memory related challenges and their caregivers are invited to join us for an informal social gathering and fun activity. Light refreshments will be served. New members are always welcome.

We'll put a spring in your step during this special story time focused on music and dance. Registration with a CLPL card is required.

This isn't your typical book club! There's no assigned reading, no discussion to prepare for.

Students in grades 6-12 can come and use the library’s Meta Quest 2 VR Headset, Nintendo Switch, or play a tabletop board game, while hanging with other teens. Snacks will be provided. Stay for a little while or the whole time.

Chicago playwright, Bill Daniel will lead an afternoon seminar on the basics of playwriting with lecture, exercises, and feedback.

Come prepared to write - notebooks & pens/pencils or laptops are encouraged.

Stop by Youth Services for a surprise, hands-on activity. Crafts, games or building. The activity will change every week. Drop in. No registration required.

Stacy Bromann, of The Dala Group, will provide details on the various filing strategies available to single individuals, married couples, divorced individuals, and widows.

The Committee of the Whole of the Board of Library Trustees of the City of Crystal Lake will be holding an in person meeting at the library to consider essential business.