Easter Holiday Closing

The Library will be closed on Sunday, March 31st for the Easter holiday.  We will reopen on Monday, April 1st at 9:00 a.m. 

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Singing Bowl Meditation

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Food, Health & Wellness
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Seats Remaining: 0
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Join instructor, Julie Benson, as she leads us through a relaxing evening of meditation and sound. Feel your stress melt away as the soothing sounds of the crystal singing bowls wash over you leaving you in a calm and peaceful state. Attendees sho...
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Grab & Go Cold Case

All Day
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Grab & Go Craft Pickup
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Culture, History & Current Events, Games & Activities
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Seats Remaining: 0
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Do you like true crime and solving puzzles? Sign up for this fun program that will let you solve your own case. All of the faux cold case information will be provided. Get ready to become a detective! Due to the nature of the program and the case fil...
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Acupuncture 101

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Food, Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 25
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What is acupuncture? How does it work? What does it treat? Join local licensed acupuncturist, Michael Sassack, of Wauconda Apothecary and Acupuncture as he introduces this centuries old Chinese healing technique. ...
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Singing Bowl Meditation

10:00am - 11:00am
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Food, Health & Wellness
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Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:
Join instructor, Julie Benson, as she leads us through a relaxing hour of meditation and sound. Feel your stress melt away as the soothing sounds of the crystal singing bowls wash over you leaving you in a calm and peaceful state. Attendees should...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
This event is in the "Family" group.

Solar Eclipses

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Adults, Family
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults, Family
Program Type: Science & Nature
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 47
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Join us at the library to learn about the history of Solar Eclipses, eclipse observational techniques, and the science of eclipses. Presented by the Chicago Society for Space Studies. ...
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
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Seats Remaining: 23
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Join us as we discuss Drowning by T.J. Newman.  Books are available at the Adult Help Desk.  About the book:  Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling ...
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
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Seats Remaining: 16
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  Join us at the library as we discuss Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling Books are available at the Adult Help Desk A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, an...
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Plan Your Vacation Online

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Adults
Open
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology, Business & Finance
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 61
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From cheap airfare to travel planners to useful travel apps, this class will show you the best ways to enable your computer to help you see the world! ...
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Offsite Event
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Offsite Events
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
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Seats Remaining: 0
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Participate in a t-shirt design contest and then join us at Bungalow Printing to make a t-shirt with the winner’s design. Participants must be 18 years or older Bungalow Printing | 423 W Liberty St. | Wauconda   If you're interested ...
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Art, Movies & Entertainment
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Seats Remaining: 67
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Enjoy the movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on the Library's big screen. Popcorn, pretzels and water bottles will be provided. Movie Description: Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial th...

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Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Culture, History & Current Events
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This program is closed to new registrants and drop-in attendees and at full capacity.  ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 26
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Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson. We are delighted that the author will be joining us on Zoom! Books will be available t...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Virtual 5 Ingredient Healthy Cooking

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
Open
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Virtual Event
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Virtual Events
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Food, Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 34
Event Details:
Join staff from the Northwestern Medicine Leishman Center for Culinary Health, for this one-hour virtual demonstration on how to create simple healthy recipes, with 5 ingredients or less! ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Planting for Pollinators

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Science & Nature
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 40
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Discover the challenges our native pollinators are facing and how home gardeners can support them through plant choice, garden design and sustainable maintenance practices. Presented by the Lake County Forest Preserves.  ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 24
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Join us as we discuss Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland.  Books are available at the Adult Help Desk.  About the book:  Over the course of one summer that begins with a shocking tragedy, three generations of the ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 18
Event Details:
  Join us at the library as we discuss The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Books are available at the Adult Help Desk Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father'...
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Pressed Flower Bookmark

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:
Pressed flower bookmarks are a simple luxury and a beautiful way to enjoy dried flowers.  Perfect for any book lover. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Pressed Flower Bookmark

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Adults
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:
Pressed flower bookmarks are a simple luxury and a beautiful way to enjoy dried flowers.  Perfect for any book lover. ...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Cook Book Lovers Book Club

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Adults
Closed
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Food, Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:
A special book club for food lovers! Join us as we talk food & cooking and how it brings us all together.  Flip through the wonderful stories and beautiful photography of The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook before selecting a recipe...

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Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

This event is in the "Adults" group.
Registration
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Art, Movies & Entertainment
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 70
Event Details:
Enjoy the movie The Fabelmans on the Library's big screen. Popcorn, pretzels, and water bottles will be provided. Movie Description: Inspired by true events, the narrative follows Sammy Fabelman on a journey of self-discovery. At the age of sev...

Disclaimer(s)

Food Allergies

We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.

This event is in the "Adults" group.

Great Decisions (In-Person)

2:00pm - 4:00pm
Adults
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Culture, History & Current Events
Event Details:
Great Decisions is the United States' largest discussion program on world affairs. Each month, professor Gary Midkiff leads a non-partisan conversation about the most important foreign policy issues facing Americans today. There is no registration fo...
This event is in the "Adults" group.
Registration
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Books & Authors
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 28
Event Details:
Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown.  Books will be available to check out at the...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Introduction to Natural Soap Making

6:30pm - 8:30pm
Adults
Closed
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Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Food, Health & Wellness
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:
Join this eco-friendly workshop to learn about the process of making soap and its history, then make your own melt-and-pour soap bar. Each participant will be provided with equipment and ingredients to craft their own organic base soap with...
This event is in the "Adults" group.

Password Safety

7:00pm - 8:30pm
Adults
Open
Registration
Library Branch: Wauconda Area Public Library
Room: Lincoln Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Technology, Business & Finance
Registration Required
Seats Remaining: 77
Event Details:
The first line of defense in online safety is practicing smart password habits. We’ll show you how to create safe passwords and use password managers to make your online life easier. ...