As the summer winds down and families prepare for the new school year, the Joliet Public Library remains a steady and welcoming space.

Megan Millen, Joliet Public Library executive director, said the renovation of the 20-year-old Black Road branch was part of the library’s strategic planning process, as was the renovation of the Ottawa Street branch.

The second meeting of the new Joliet District 5 advisory council will be at the Joliet Public Library Ottawa Branch.

What started as a small celebration in summer of 2012 has turned into a massive Star Wars block party in the heart of downtown Joliet. This year's Star Wars Day is Saturday.

The Joliet Public Library provides details for the popular Star Wars Day on June 7. The event is free.

The Imagination Library of Will County has received a $25,000 donation from an Elwood-based company to help fund the free book-gifting program for Will County communities.

Gently used clothing will be $1 on Friday and Saturday at a Community Thrift Sale at Jolie Central High School.

Our library users know that Joliet Public Library offers much more than books. With your Joliet Public Library card, you can instantly stream titles from A24, The Criterion Collection, PBS, and so many more.

Mark your calendars for the first-ever Brick Fest at the Joliet Public Library’s Ottawa Street Branch. It will be a weekend of creativity, hands-on fun, and incredible displays of LEGOs.

Since making their way into libraries around 2011, makerspaces have exploded in popularity. Check out what exciting things are going on at the Joliet Public Library Ottawa Street Branch's Digital Media Studio.

A forum for Joliet City Council at-large candidates will be held on Feb. 19 at the Joliet Public Library on Ottawa Street. Joliet residents may submit questions in advance.

Bring your child to the Joliet Public Library for a day of fun activities on Saturday.

Will County schools, cities, and hospitals were dealt a surprise blow on Tuesday as President Donald Trump issued an order freezing all federal grant funding. The action is now on hold by court order but local officials are working to see what's next.

One thing that gets me through the winters in Joliet is the Danish concept of comfort, coziness and the simple things in life, referred to as hygge. The Joliet Public Library can be a place to experience that and disconnect.

The Joliet Public Library is getting ready to start Black Road Branch remodeling by late spring after the city agreed to a $3.5 million loan.

On a 6-3 vote, the City Council on Tuesday approved a $3.5 million loan to the Joliet Public Library for remodeling the Black Road Branch.

The Joliet City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to make the loan, which would finance remodeling at the Black Road Branch.

The city of Joliet will host a free workshop on emergency and disaster preparedness at the Joliet Public Library on Wednesday,

Cast set for developments in Joliet for the coming year.

The City Council will vote Tuesday on a $3.5 million loan to the Joliet Public Library to remodel the Black Road Branch.

Mike Rank, who served as the children’s librarian at the Joliet Public Library's downtown branch for seven years, died in 2024. He is remembered for his "unique gift for connecting with kids and teens."

Standing just west of Essington Road, the Joliet Public Library's Black Road Branch sits on the Rock Run Forest Preserve. It offers lively programs for all ages and circulates 30,000 books per month.

Here are five ways to ensure the holidays are merry and bright for people and pets in need in Will County.

Joliet Public Library hosts public grand opening for NASA's “Discover Exoplanets: The Search for Alien Worlds” on Dec. 11.

Spirits with the Spirits starts at 4:30 p.m. with lessons to learn the “Thriller” dance at the Joliet Public Library at 150 N. Ottawa St. and continues through the night.

Joliet Library wants to start remodeling project in 2025 on Black Road Branch, but needs City Council OK for increase in property tax levy.

State Senator Rachel Ventura announced she will be hosting a town hall at the Joliet Public Library Black Road Branch to discuss the planned sale of Ascension St. Joseph–Joliet hospital to Prime HealthCare.

In addition to thousands of books, the Friends of the Joliet Public Library sale will include audiobooks, computer games, movies, music and puzzles,

The city of Joliet on Wednesday announced that two major parking lots downtown will be closed, but the city is offering free parking at its Ottawa Street deck for library, business patrons.

The Joliet Public Library's JPL On-the-Go outreach van features books, a bubble machine, exterior awning, mobile WI-FI and a TV screen.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, who's young adult Alice series is among the most frequently challenged or banned books, shares how growing up in Joliet shaped her writing.

Uxmar Torres, 28, of Joliet, is a Joliet Junior College employee and organizer of Bicentennial Park’s first poetry open mic night on April 5.

The Joliet Public Library hosted its annual Star Wars Day event at the Ottawa Street branch and the Joliet Area Historical Society welcome artists, fans, and cosplayers from around the Chicagoland area.

"Travel Through the Pages” is the theme for the Joliet Public Library’s 2024 summer reading program. Staff handcrafted much of the themed decor, including "hot air balloons" and a a real HO scale train "driving" through the hollowed-out pages of a book.

What started with a group of Star Wars fans and youth librarians in the early 2010s, blossomed into the epic event it is today.

The Star Wars doll exhibit is at the library’s branch in downtown until June 2. Artist will make presentation on Star Wars Day.

Star Wars Day is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 1 in downtown Joliet.

Joliet resident Jim Healy will present an original one-man play about Louis Jolliet Wednesday at the Joliet Public Library.

The Friends of the Joliet Public Library is a group of dedicated volunteers and fundraisers that deserves recogition.

Tom Hernandez came to District 202 in 2006 as its director of community relations and remained in that role in 2003. Hernandez was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.

Skip Griparis and his Big Little Band will perform a lively tribute to the Rockabilly Heroes on Saturday at the Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park Theatre in Joliet.

When spring hits, we have been planning for summer, maybe even fall. Especially at Joliet Public Library, we began planning for our Summer Reading Challenge and of course, the epic Star Wars Day the first Saturday in June.

Local history librarian at the Joliet Public Library, Anneta Drilling Sowa doesn’t need convincing about the value of remembering. She has worked at the Joliet Public Library for almost 36 years.

The $6.3 million state grant made to the Joliet Public Library helped make remodeling of the Ottawa Branch possible.

You don’t have to have a Joliet Public Library card to participate in the programs and they are always free.

The Joliet Public Library is quite friendly and offers reading programs, events and guest passes for computers even if you don’t have a card. But the library has big goals this year, and one of them is to increase our number of cardholders.

State Senator Meg Loughran Cappel invites the public to attend her traveling office hours at the Joliet Public Library Black Road Branch on Thursday.

Joliet Library officials say they have not decided what to do with Book and Bean Cafe space, but library cafes are on the decline.

The Book and Bean Cafe will serve its last cup of coffee for Joliet library patrons later this month. Tammy and Grady Duckworth have run popular cafe since 2011.

But Book and Bean in Joliet was more than a community café. It was hub for local artists.