More than twenty years after becoming the youngest woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for her stunning performance as Sarah Norman, the pupil-turned-custodian at a school for the Deaf in Children of a Lesser God, Marlee Matlin continues to be an inspirational force of nature. She will join us live for this free virtual Illinois […]

  Presenter Ed O’Brien joins us at the Library for a historical impersonation of John Deere, a blacksmith who developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837 and founded the company that still bears his name on tractors used in farming today.  This presentation is free and open to the public. Registration is […]