It was a fun and fulfilling year at Lake Forest Library with new events, new materials, and renewed spaces.

Find local trick-or-treating hours and Halloween weekend events.

The Big Balloon Halloween Show
A mix of magic, comedy and "jaw-dropping" balloon creations is aimed at ages 3 to 12. Featuring entertainer Smarty Pants and his wife and partner Miss Dena, the show will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 in the Kasian Room at the Lake Forest Library. Those interested in attending may register online.

What do you get when you combine teenagers, pizza and paint?

In the case of the Lake Forest Library, you get what happened the night of Thursday, Aug. 22 as members of the library’s Young Adult Advisory Board rolled up their sleeves and painted the walls of the new teen room.

The new teen room is a major improvement over what had previously been their space, according to Emmy Neal, the Lake Forest Library’s teen librarian.

Reporter and author Dan Egan visited Lake Forest on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, and spoke at two events attended by over 400 people as part of Deep Freeze Read, the new winter reading program from Lake Forest and Lake Bluff libraries. This year's selection was Egan's book, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.

On February 20, the Reading Rangers children's book group at Lake Forest Library met with author Marianne Malone via Skype to discuss her series, The Sixty-Eight Rooms, a mystery-fantasy novel set amid the Art Institute of Chicago's famed Thorne Miniature Rooms.