Monee Historical Society

American History Book Club
2023-07-06 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
July History Book Club: Readers choice:
A Secret Life: The Lies, and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States—Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that reads like a sordid romance novel—including allegations of rape, physical violence, and prostitution. The stunning lengths that Cleveland undertook to conceal what really happened the evening of his son’s conception are truly astonishing—including forcing the unwed mother, Maria Halpin, into an insane asylum.
A Secret Life also finally reveals what happened to Grover Cleveland’s son. Some historians have suggested that he became an alcoholic and died a young man—but Lachman definitively establishes his fate here for the first time. In this gripping historical narrative, Charles Lachman sets the scandal-plagued record straight with a tightly-coiled plot that provides for narrative history at its best.
OR
An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
A biography of the only president to be elected to non-consecutive terms reveals a tough, honest, courageous leader who took responsibility for his actions and wasn’t afraid to take on corruption where he saw it.

Mystery Book Club
2023-07-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us in July at the Monee Heritage Center. Registration required: www.peotonelibrary.org

Celebrate Juneteenth with Dr. Larry McClellan Professor Emeritus, Governors State University & Maurice "Mo" Brown, President, Crete-Monee School District 201U
2023-06-10 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us as we welcome Dr. Larry McClellan to learn about Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois and the proposed Chicago to Detroit Freedom Trail.
Dr. McClellan will also be available to sign copies of his books:
The Underground Railroad South of Chicago
and
To the River.
Books are available for purchase at the Monee Historical Society.
Maurice “Mo” Brown, President of Crete-Monee School District will present on the importance and understanding of Juneteenth as a National Holiday.

MHS membership meeting
2023-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | IL
The MHS monthly meeting will be held June 8 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center

American History Book Club
2023-06-01 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
June American History selection:
Destiny of the Republic
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur-moil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his condition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.

Mystery Book Club
2023-06-01 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Peotone Library, 515 N 1st Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
Join our Mystery Book Club! Plan to join us on Thursday 6/1/23 at the Peotone Public Library. Registration required: www.peotonelibrary.org

DAR Lineage Workshop
2023-05-13 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Peotone Library, 515 N 1st Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
Find out if you have a Revolutionary War Patriot in your family tree!
Please register if you plan to attend the workshop.
http://www.peotonelibrary.org

MHS membership meeting
2023-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | IL
The MHS monthly meeting will be held May 11 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center

Community Scan Day
2023-05-06 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Plan to stop by and help us document Monee’s history!

Community Scan Day
2023-05-06 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Plan to drop by and help us document Monee’s history!

History Book Club
2023-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The May History Book selection is Grant and Twain by Mark Perry. The History Book Club meets at the Monee Heritage Center.

Mystery Book Club
2023-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The May selection for the Mystery Book Club can be found at the Peotone Library. The May Book Club will meet at The Monee Heritage Center. Register for this event at: www.peotonelibrary.org

MHS membership meeting
2023-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | IL
The MHS monthly meeting will be held April 13 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center

ANNUAL PANCAKE BREAKFAST
2023-03-25 08:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Schoop’s of Monee, 5701 W Monee Manhattan Rd, Monee, IL, 60449
Start your day with pancakes! For info & tickets: call 708-534-8635

HISTORY FOR KIDS - UP & AWAY!
2023-03-18 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Register your child early as space is limited.

Heritage Day
2023-03-11 10:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | IL
Stop in and see us this Saturday 3/11/23 from 10 am – 3 pm.

MHS membership meeting
2023-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The MHS monthly meeting will be held March 9, 2023 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center

AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK CLUB
2023-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States

Happy Valentines Day!
2023-02-14 | IL

Heritage Day
2023-02-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Learn about the Freedom Seekers who traveled the Underground Railroad in Eastern Will/Southern Cook counties.

Marshall Gibson, Independent Filmmaker shares his current film documenting the work of Dr. Larry McClellan.

Friday Night Scrapbooking
2023-02-03 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States

AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK CLUB
2023-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Our Roots are Deep was published in 1974 by Muriel Mueller Milne. It remains today the most thorough and comprehensive history of the Village of Monee and its people in existence. Muriel Sophie Marie Mueller was born in Monee to Emmet and Esther (Jacobs) Mueller on March 10, 1922. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. On June 29, 1947 she married Willam Henry Milne, the son of Alexander and Dorothea (Grote) Milne. She served as Editor of the Monee Monitor from 1963-1969, and was an accomplished artist; many of her works gracing the walls of homes in Monee and the surrounding areas. Fascinated by Monee’s pioneer history, Muriel served as chairman of the Monee Centennial Committee and was a huge part of it’s planning and execution. Monee’s Centennial Celebration was in 1974, which coincided with the publishing of her incredible book about Monee. The scope of the information contained in Our Roots are Deep is especially impressive given the time and limitations she faced in the early 1970’s, when genealogy and this type of research was in its infancy. There was no internet to aid in her fact finding. She must have conducted dozens of interviews to get all the information she included in her book. The hours of painstaking note-taking and record-gathering undertaken would have been in the hundreds of hours. Sadly, Muriel died November 29, 1974, only months after her book was published. She was buried in Skyline Cemetery, just north of Monee, on December 1, 1974. As a result of her work, many future generations have been helped and informed by her book and her legacy to Monee will never be forgotten.

Mystery Book Club: Broken Places: A Chicago Mystery by Tracy Clark
2023-01-05 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us for another year of fun and intriguing Who Done-Its! If you are a fan of mystery novels, here is the group for you!
Join us as we discuss the novels and their authors and discover new writers to add to our perennial favorites.

The book club meets on the first Thursday of every month, odd number months in Monee and even numbered months in Peotone
Registration is requested for this event on the Peotone Library Website
The library will have each month’s selection reserved for participants at the front desk.
You can also pick up the full list of 2023 titles at the library.
www.peotonelibrary.org

January’s selection is: Broken Places A Chicago Mystery by Tracy Clark

Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it’s up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose . . .

Thursday, January 5, 2023 11:00am – 12:00pm
Monee Heritage Center
5210 W Court Street
Monee, IL 60449

Wreaths Across America
2022-12-17 11:00 - 17:00 UTC | St. Pauls Cemetery, 5223 W Margaret Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Volunteers for Wreaths Across America will be at St. Paul Cemetery on December 17 at 11 am.
Join us for the Wreath Laying Ceremony to honor all 100 veterans buried at St Paul’s Cemetery, 5323 W. Margaret St., Monee www.wreathsacrossamerica.org

MHS Monthly Meeting
2022-12-08 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The MHS monthly meeting will be held December 8 at 7 pm at the Heritage Center.

Photos with Santa
2022-12-03 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Monee Village Hall, 5130 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Photos with Santa will be held at Village Hall December 3 from 10 am to 3 pm.

Village Tree Lighting & Photos with Santa
2022-12-02 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Monee Village Hall, 5130 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The Monee Village Tree Lighting will be held December 2 from 6 to 7:30 pm at Village Hall.

History Book Club
2022-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The History Book Club will meet December 1 from 7 to 9 pm at the Heritage Center.

Mystery Book Club
2022-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Peotone Library, 515 N 1st Street, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
The Mystery Book Club will be held December 1, 11 am to 12 pm at the Heritage Center.
Mistletoe Murder & Other Stories by P.D. James

Presentation: Monee's Native American Past, Movie & Presentation
2022-11-12 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
MHS will host Monee’s Native American Past, Movie and Presentation on November 12, 10 am – 3 pm at the Heritage Center
Monee’s Native American Past
November 12, 10a and 1p
10a – Screening of Princess Monee, the Real Story
1p – Local Expert Mark Madsen presents ‘Native Trails Through Monee and Surrounding Area’
Mark has been an avocational archaeologist and researcher since 1982 and has an M.A. in History. He was past president of the Chicago Archaeological Society and is a member of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, the IAAA, CAS, and the South Suburban Archaeological Society.
Since 1982 he has written more than a dozen books on topics related to Chicago Area History and Archaeology.
in recent years he has focused attention around Crete, Illinois, where the Vincennes Trail intersected with a branch of the Sauk Trial used in rainy seasons. Crete-Monee and Exchange Avenues ran near this trail. Monee was at the headwaters of Rock Creek trail leading down to the Kankakee River with its choice quarry areas for making tools, and an 80-foot high rock bluff. Not far away was Bourbonnais, Kankakee, and “Soldier’s” Potawatomi Village
