CHARLESTON – The Charleston Carnegie Public Library has announced events for the month of December.
Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa crafts are in the spotlight this month.
One per child while supplies last. Available at the KidSpace Desk. This is a free program for children, open to the public. A library card is not required. Designed for ages 3-12.
Hanukkah Crafts available until Sunday December 5th
Christmas and Kwanzaa crafts available from Monday December 6 to Sunday January 2
Kiwanis hosts speaker from local history center
In December, help us prepare for future programming by saving your empty wrapping paper tubes. As you move forward with your vacation preparations, grab onto these naked tubes and drop them off at the traffic desk anytime during the month of December. You take them out of your house, and we can do some creative crafts. For more information, call 217-345-1514.
Holiday library ornaments for sale
Give an ornament from the Charleston Carnegie Public Library as a gift. Ordered in 2002, these ornaments commemorate the original Carnegie Library from 1904. For just $ 1, you can add a piece of Charleston history to your holiday season. Supplies are limited, so collect your ornament from the loaner counter before it runs out.
All proceeds go to the library and our mission of serving our community.
Holiday Take & Make: Melted Snowman Ornaments
Make a fun, festive, melted snowman that you can leave in place all winter. Available from Wednesday December 1 to Friday December 31 at the information desk.
The new mobile library is here. Search the catalog for the SHARE shared library in central and southern Illinois. Browse new books, renew your articles, search for digital content, and track library due dates, all on the SHARE app. Your local library is right at your fingertips. To download the app, search for SHARE Mobile Library in the App Store or the Google Play Store.
Greeting cards for veterans
We are teaming up with our local VFW Post 1592 to provide you with the option of filling out one or more Veteran Vacation Cards at our local Veterans Hospitals. Bring family and friends and stop by any library office to fill out a greeting card for a vet until Friday, December 10. Our veterans deserve some holiday cheer!
From all of us here at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library, we wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season.
- Closed on Friday, December 24
- Closed on Saturday December 25
- Closed on Sunday December 26
- Closes at 5 p.m. on Friday December 31
- Closed on Saturday January 1st
For more information, contact Kattie Livingston, Manager of Adult Services, at [email protected] or 217-345-4913.
Charleston locations in 12 historical photos
Wilb Walker supermarket
1988: Dyalene Haworth demonstrates the ease of use of the EZ Shopper Grocery Cart at Wilb Walker Supermarket.
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Square
1980: Place Charleston.
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North Park house before renovation
1986: Jean Carpenter of Charleston received a grant to repair his house. A grant of $ 350,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs will be used to renovate approximately 40 homes in the North Park neighborhood.
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North Park house after renovation
1986: Jean Carpenter on the porch of the house after renovations.
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Mother
1988: At Mother’s in Charleston, grandmother winks at customers who come to wet their whistles. Mothers is a tavern known to almost every student at Eastern Illinois University.
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Hotel fire
1931: The Jefferies building is destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. On the left is the Winters clothing store with the Charleston hotel office next door to the north, then a vacant room recently vacated by the Huckleberry jewelry store, with the Rogers Pharmacy on the corner.
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Golf field
1986: Pat Kaiser plans to open his nine-hole golf course by Memorial Day weekend if Mother Nature would cooperate.
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Eastern Illinois Artists Guild
1941: A permanent exhibition of the work of Paul Turner Sargent was opened by the Eastern Illinois Artists’ Guild at 809 Jack St. built in 1831 by Dr. Aaron Ferguson. It is said to be the oldest house in Charleston.
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Downtown
1986: Downtown Charleston was designated as part of the district for funding that city’s tax increases in so-called dilapidated areas of their cities.
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Coles County National Bank
1992: Coles County National Bank is declared insolvent and sold to Eagle Bank and Trust Co. The Missouri-based trust company owns banks in three other Illinois cities, Sparta, Nashville and Highland.
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Charleston Square
1978: Osco Drug and Eisner grocery store soon opens in Charleston Plaza shopping center. The two stores will occupy 40,000 square feet in the center. A 2,000 square foot Radio Shack store is already open. Another 2,000 square foot store will be occupied by the Book Emporium and will open later this year. A total of 9,000 square feet remains for rent in the center.
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Celotex Corp.
1971: The estimated annual production for the new Celotex Corp. plant. north of Charleston is approximately 130 million square feet of insulation board.
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