Locations:
Main Library - Channahon
25207 W Channon Drive
PO Box 300
Channahon, IL 60410
Phone: 815-467-6200
Fax: 815-467-4012
Minooka Branch
109 N Wabena Avenue
PO Box 370
Minooka, IL 60447
Phone: 815-467-1600
Fax: 815-467-1632
What's Happening @ The Library...
Summer Reading mini-movie: A "Mad" Summer of Fun: Episode 4
The Mad Scientist is back at the Channahon Library and it looks like he's up to his tricks again.
Miss an episode? You can see all the episodes and the trailer on our YouTube Channel and find out how you can Read By Design on Summer Reading page.
Upcoming Bus Trips
Chicago Botanic Gardens
Join us as we visit the Chicago Botanical Gardens this summer! Registration is required for each person, with payment due at the time of registration. A waiver must also be signed for the trip per person. Please visit our events calendar for more details.
When: Tuesday, August 8
Where: The bus leaves promptly at 12pm from the Channahon location
Cost: $20 per person gets you a seat on the bus and admission to the Botanic Gardens as well as the Gardens' Lenhardt Library & Rare Books room
Who: For ages 10 and up
*Trip Waiver can be found at either library location and is due Friday, August 4Les Miserables
Visit Chicago with us this fall on a musical bus trip! Tickets go on sale July 10th. Registration is required for each person, with payment due at the time of registration. A waiver must also be signed for the trip per person. Please visit our events calendar for more details, coming soon.
When: Wednesday, October 11
Where: Cadillac Palace Theater; The bus leaves promptly at 5:30pm from the Channahon location
Cost: $85 per person includes a seat on the bus and ticket to the show
Who: For ages 5 and up
*Trip Waiver can be found at either library location and is due Wednesday, October 4th
Summer Reading 2017
READING 
BY DESIGN JUNE 12 - JULY 28
EARLY REGISTRATION JUNE 5-9, 2017
Log your summer reading online beginning Monday, June 12 and continuing through Friday, July 28. Select the link below to register or log into your Summer Reading Program account.
Mini Makers: Pre-Readers
Your username must be last name, first initial, year of birth. So if you are Joe Smith, born in 1960, your username would be smithj1960.Visit our Summer Reading Page for more information!
What's In Your Backyard? Minooka's Mastodons
In 1901 in small-town Minooka, farmer John Bamford worked his farm. As he dug in his backyard, widening his spring-fed well, he came across something strange. At first, he thought the obstacles were tree trunks, but upon closer inspection, the ‘trunks’ turned out to be huge bones, teeth, and other parts that didn’t belong to any creature he recognized. Mr. Bamford kept his finds, storing them in his cellar. Several years later, after hearing rumors of this strange find, George Langford Sr. traveled down to Minooka to retrieve the fossils and bones, in turn handing them over to the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.Thanks to the generosity of the Field Museum of Natural History, Head of Collections William Simpson, and the Gantz Family Collections Center at the Field Museum, these bones have returned to Minooka for a limited time. Take a peek into the prehistoric past and visit these unique specimens in person at the Three Rivers Public Library District’s Local History Museum housed at the Minooka Branch at 109 N Wabena Ave in Minooka, IL.
The museum will be open for visitors during library hours every other weekend beginning December 3rd and 4th. The museum will also be open Monday evenings from 4 p.m-8 p.m. To schedule a viewing during other library hours, contact Three Rivers Library’s Local Historian Michele Houchens at 815-467-1600 x207.
Photo Caption: George Langford Sr. sits with the mastodon tusk found on the Bamford farm in Minooka in 1901. Mr. Langford was instrumental in bringing the find from Minooka to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. Photo courtesy of George Langford, III, Sc.D.
