Event List

Join Order of the Good Death Volunteer and Children's Librarian, LeAnna Whitaker, for a discussion about death, dying, and caregiving in Illinois. Let's demystify the dying process and the logistics that go along with it.

Megan VanGorder, Assistant Professor of History, Illinois State University, presents her new book, A Mother's Work: Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War-Era Nurse, which is being released through the University of North Carolina Press in late Febru

In this talk, Cynthia Clampitt will present the history of corn and how it transformed the Americas before First Contact, how it traveled the world after First Contact, and its stunning impact on the creation of not only the historic Midwest but j