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The St. Andrew’s Fall Book Fair, featuring over 20,000 used books, will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 5-6 at 406 Hillsboro Avenue in Edwardsville, Illinois. Reservations are required on Friday. Saturday hours will be 9 a.m. – Noon without reservations.

The St. Andrew’s Fall Book Fair, featuring over 20,000 used books, will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 5-6 at 406 Hillsboro Avenue in Edwardsville, Illinois. Reservations are required on Friday. Saturday hours will be 9 a.m. – Noon without reservations.

An Illinois State Historical Society marker commemorating United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) President and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) founder John L. Lewis (1880-1969) is scheduled for unveiling at 1 p.m. on Friday, November 5, at John L. Lewis Park, Shoal Creek Avenue and Jefferson Street in Panama.

On Tuesday, October 26 at 7:00 p.m., join McLean County Museum of History Librarian Bill Kemp for a free, public program (via Zoom) that will take program participants back to November 13, 1833, when the nighttime sky lit up like an Independence Day sparkler in what’s believed to be the most intense meteor shower in recorded human history.

Illinois Humanities has worked to bring the Smithsonian Institute’s touring world-class exhibitions to communities in Illinois for several years, but it is the current tour – Voices and Votes: Democracy in America – that has presented the most urgency.