Clarendon Hills Library presents "Your City @ Home"

The Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, Chicago Children’s Museum, Illinois Holocaust Museum—these are just a few of the Chicago area treasures that you can visit virtually through “Your City @ Home,” a series of online tours offered this spring by the Clarendon Hills Library.

Through a unique partnership with 40 other libraries in the Chicago area, CHPL is able to offer virtual field trips to nine different Chicago cultural and historic destinations. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the propagation greenhouse at the Garfield Park Conservatory, meet the penguins at the Shedd Aquarium, enjoy “The People Could Fly” exhibit at the DuSable Museum of African American History, and much more.

“The COVID pandemic has definitely changed the services that museums and libraries can provide to the public. I am thrilled that we and our area libraries are able to partner with these nine museums to offer our communities virtual access to some of the amazing historical, cultural, and educational content and exhibits at these museums,” said, Lori Craft, Clarendon Hills Library Director.

The nine-event series takes place on selected Saturdays in April and May:

• Shedd Aquarium – April 3, 3 pm
• DuSable Museum of African American History – April 10, 1 pm
• Chicago Children’s Museum – May 1, 1 pm
• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center – May 8, 2 pm
• Art Institute of Chicago – May 15, 1 pm
• Field Museum – May 22, 1 pm
• Elmhurst History Museum – May 29, 2 pm

Check clarendonhillslibrary.org for more details and registration information.

The forty-one libraries partnering for this series are: Algonquin Area PLD, Antioch PLD, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Bellwood PL, Cary Area PL, Clarendon Hills PL, Cook Memorial PLD, Crystal Lake PL, Deerfield PL, Ela Area PL, Fox River Valley PLD, Fremont PLD, Gail Borden PLD, Glencoe PL, Glenview PL, Grayslake Area PL, Highland Park PL, Homer Township PL, Huntley Area PL, Indian Trails PLD, Lake Bluff PL, Lake Villa District Library, Lincolnwood PLD, Matteson Area PLD, Morton Grove PL, Mount Prospect PL, Niles-Maine District Library, Plainfield PLD, Prospect Heights PL, Round Lake Area PLD, Schaumburg Township District Library, Shorewood-Troy PL, South Holland PL, St. Charles PL, Vernon Area PLD, Warren-Newport PL, Wauconda Area Library, Westchester PL, Wheaton PL, Woodridge PL, and Woodstock PL.