Pride Flag Contest
June is Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community and a commemoration of the New York City Stonewall riots in 1969. This year, the Library is holding a contest to create your own Pride Flag. Use your creativity to…
June is Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community and a commemoration of the New York City Stonewall riots in 1969. This year, the Library is holding a contest to create your own Pride Flag. Use your creativity to…
In honor of Pride Month this June, the Library will be collecting supplies to support Brave Space Alliance’s crisis pantry located at 9 N. Cicero. Brave Space Alliance is a black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center located on the south side of…
You are invited to join FPPL this summer for a fun summer reading challenge. Pick up a challenge card in the Young Adult Lounge, do the activities and turn it in to be entered for a chance to win the…
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe” - Madeleine L'Engle June 1 - July 28 Sign Up Here Let’s read! This summer, dare to read something that…
From May 1-14, the Forest Park Public Library will be collecting baby formula and diapers for New Moms, an organization with locations in Oak Park and Chicago. New Moms is an organization created to support new mothers ages 24 and…
This year, National Arbor Day is Friday, April 28. For the fourth time, Forest Park will be celebrating by planting a tree. This year, the tree will be planted at the Forest Park Public Library, on the corner of Jackson…
The Library presents a special Black History Month StoryWalk during the month of February on Madison Street. The featured title is The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson. The StoryWalk starts at Madison Park Kitchen, goes up Madison, towards Harlem,…
The Forest Park Public Library is hosting a paperback book drive for Chicago Books to Women in Prison during the month of February. CBWP sends books to women and trans/non-binary adults in prisons across the country free of charge. They…
No matter what your intentions are in 2023, your public library can help you make this a great year. Each week in January, we will feature some ways the Library can help you in the new year. It…
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