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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250911T180000
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SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-09-11/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250904T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250904T210000
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SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Doris Kearns Goodwin’s classic life of Lyndon Johnson\, who presided over the Great Society\, the Vietnam War\, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s\, is a monument in political biography. From the moment the author\, then a young woman from Harvard\, first encountered President Johnson at a White House dance in the spring of 1967\, she became fascinated by the man–his character\, his enormous energy and drive\, and his manner of wielding these gifts in an endless pursuit of power. As a member of his White House staff\, she soon became his personal confidante\, and in the years before his death he revealed himself to her as he did to no other. \nWidely praised and enormously popular\, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream is a work of biography like few others. With uncanny insight and a richly engrossing style\, the author renders LBJ in all his vibrant\, conflicted humanity.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-8/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000221-1755194400-1755205200@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-08-14/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T190000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250624T204415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T204415Z
UID:10000316-1755194400-1755198000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Burnham's Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we spend a day at the fair.  Co-presented with the Peotone Public Library District.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/burnhams-chicago/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250809T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250809T190000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250702T155538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T124934Z
UID:10000317-1754751600-1754766000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Annual Art Auction & Wine and Cheese Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual Art Auction & Wine and Cheese Reception. \nStroll the beautiful Creamery building\, while enjoying a live musical performance by the Doug Horne Quartet.  Sip a glass of wine\, enjoy artisian cheeses and charcuterie among friends\, old and new.  Our silent auction will feature a variety of items\, including one-of-a-kind art pieces from local artisians.   All while helping to support the on-going mission of the Monee Historical Society. \nTickets include an exclusive MHS wineglass\, 2 glasses of wine and light hors d’oeuvres.* \nMust be 21 or older to purchase wine tickets. \n*Online purchase includes convenience fee
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-annual-art-auction-wine-and-cheese-reception/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250809T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250809T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
UID:10000294-1754735400-1754739000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-08-09/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250807T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250807T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T200721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T200753Z
UID:10000281-1754593200-1754600400@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:WINNER\, 2023 Illinois State Historical Society Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award! \nA territory split by slavery\, a state forged for union \nAvenues of Transformation traces the surprising path\, marked by shame\, ambition\, and will that led to Illinois’s admission to the Union in 1818. Historian James A. Edstrom guides the reader through this story by associating each stage of the narrative—the original statehood campaign\, the passage of Illinois’s statehood-enabling act by Congress\, and Illinois’s first constitutional convention—with the primary leaders in each of those episodes. The lives of these men—Daniel Pope Cook\, Nathaniel Pope\, and Elias Kent Kane—reflect the momentous tangle of politics\, slavery\, and geography. This history maps the drive for statehood in the conflict between nation and state\, in the perpetuation of slavery\, and in the sweep of water and commerce. It underscores the ways in which the Prairie State is uniquely intertwined—economically\, socially\, and politically—with every region of the Union: North\, South\, East\, and West—and captures the compelling moment when Illinois statehood stood ready to more perfectly unify the nation. \nThis volume is the first full-length book in over a century to describe and analyze Illinois’s admission to the Union. It marks the first time that a historian has analyzed in detail the roll-call votes of the first state constitutional convention\, seated evenly by pro- and antislavery delegates. Edstrom’s wit and prose weave a lively narrative of political ambition and human failure. Patiently crafted\, Avenues of Transformation will be the first source for readers to turn to for gaining a better understanding of Illinois statehood.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-7/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250712T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250712T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
UID:10000293-1752316200-1752319800@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-07-12/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250710T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000220-1752170400-1752181200@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-07-10/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250703T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250703T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T200412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T200413Z
UID:10000280-1751569200-1751576400@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nPart 2 \nAn Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy\, 1917–1963 is a 2003 biography of the 35th president of the United States\, John F\, Kennedy (JFK)\, who was assassinated in 1963.  It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek\, a prominent History professor at Boston University. The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia University and UCLA prior to accepting his professorial role in Boston\, and was the author of nearly two-dozen books. Dallek researched JFK for five years\, using National Security Srchives\, oral histories\, White House tapes\, and medical records in his preparations.  Dallek contends that historians have underestimated JFK’s achievements\, especially in regards to his impressive accomplishments in foreign policy\, including his averting nuclear war during the Cuban Missle Crisis and his early steps towards detente with the Soviet Union\, which began with his Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of August 5\, 1963 \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-6/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250614T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250614T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
UID:10000292-1749897000-1749900600@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-06-14/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000219-1749751200-1749762000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-06-12/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250607T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250607T160000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250415T162926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T141645Z
UID:10000313-1749301200-1749312000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Mrs. Furst's Charity Tea at the Rose Garden
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar and purchase your tickets early for this very special event.  Please call 708-534-8635 for any additional information.\nPlease note on-line purchase include a small convenience fee.\nPurchase tickets below\n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mrs-fursts-charity-tea-at-the-rose-garden/
LOCATION:IL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T200222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T200437Z
UID:10000279-1749150000-1749157200@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nPart 1 \nAn Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy\, 1917–1963 is a 2003 biography of the 35th president of the United States\, John F\, Kennedy (JFK)\, who was assassinated in 1963.  It was written by Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert Dallek\, a prominent History professor at Boston University. The author is a presidential historian who taught at Columbia University and UCLA prior to accepting his professorial role in Boston\, and was the author of nearly two-dozen books. Dallek researched JFK for five years\, using National Security Srchives\, oral histories\, White House tapes\, and medical records in his preparations.  Dallek contends that historians have underestimated JFK’s achievements\, especially in regards to his impressive accomplishments in foreign policy\, including his averting nuclear war during the Cuban Missle Crisis and his early steps towards detente with the Soviet Union\, which began with his Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of August 5\, 1963 \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-5/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250510T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250510T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
UID:10000291-1746873000-1746876600@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-05-10/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250508T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000218-1746727200-1746738000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-05-08/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250503T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250503T120000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250422T183223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T191510Z
UID:10000314-1746270000-1746273600@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Kids Butterfly Event
DESCRIPTION:Flutter on by and learn all about butterflies.  Make your own Butterfly Wind Chime! \nRegistration is required at:  www.peotonelibrary.org
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/kids-butterfly-event/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T195337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T191436Z
UID:10000278-1746126000-1746133200@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes “a vivid account” (The Wall Street Journal) of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded. \nOnce it was one of the most infamous events in early American history. Today\, it has been nearly forgotten. \nIn an obscure\, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive\, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704. This impregnable barricade—known to early Americans as “The Old Indian Door”—constructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the tomahawk blades wielded by several attacking Native tribes\, is the sole surviving artifact from one of the most dramatic moments in colonial American history: In the leap year of 1704\, on the cold\, snowy night of February 29\, hundreds of Indians and their French allies swept down on an isolated frontier outpost to slaughter or capture its inhabitants. \nThe sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of survival\, sacrifice\, family\, and faith ever told in North America. One hundred and twelve survivors\, including their fearless minister\, the Reverend John Williams\, were captured and forced to march three hundred miles north into enemy territory in Canada. Any captive who faltered or became too weak to continue the journey—including Williams’s own wife—fell under the tomahawk or war club. \nSurvivors of the march willed themselves to live and endured captivity. Ransomed by the royal governor of Massachusetts\, the captives later returned home to Deerfield\, rebuilt their town and\, for the rest of their lives\, told the incredible tale. The memoir of Rev. Williams\, The Redeemed Captive\, published soon after his liberation\, became one of the first bestselling books in American history and remains a literary classic. The Old Indian Door is a touchstone that conjures up one of the most dramatic and inspiring stories of colonial America. Now\, in this “immersive and memorable book [and] with his gifts of great storytelling and penetrating insight\, James Swanson has given us a compelling account of an unjustly forgotten episode in American history” (Jon Meacham\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light). \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-4/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T150000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250219T223713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T205200Z
UID:10000310-1744462800-1744470000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Louis Jolliet: A Solid Path Through Water
DESCRIPTION:We are proud to present Jim Healy’s one-man performance that will surely transport you on the perilous journey with Louis Jolliet and Fr. Jacques Marquette.  Free event\, but registration is required for limited seating.  Call 708-534-8635 or e-mail: info@moneehistoricalsociety.com to reserve your seat. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/louis-jolliet-a-solid-path-through-water/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250313T214007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T214008Z
UID:10000312-1744453800-1744457400@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Travel along on the journey with Lemuel Gulliver as he takes you to Lilliput and beyond in this must-read classic tale.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
UID:10000290-1744453800-1744457400@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-04-12/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000217-1744308000-1744318800@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-04-10/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T194958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T214127Z
UID:10000277-1743706800-1743714000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:John F. Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage\, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard.  The thesis\, later published as Why England Slept\, was a study of the failure of British political leaders in the 1930s to oppose popular resistance to rearming\, leaving the country ill-prepared for World War II. \nKennedy’s election to the House in 1946 and the Senate in 1952 gave him personal experience in dealing with the conflicting pressures that legislators face. \nWhen Kennedy took a leave of absence from the Senate in 1954 to recover from back surgery\, it gave him the opportunity to study the topic of political courage. The project resulted in the publication of Profiles in Courage\, which focuses on the careers of eight United States Senators whom Kennedy felt had shown great courage under enormous pressure from their parties and their constituents. \nHis own battles with physical pain and his experiences in World War II as a PT boat commander also gave him inspiration. Profiles in Courage\, which Kennedy dedicated to his wife Jacqueline Kennedy\, received thePulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. \nCall for location of event   708-534-8635 \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-3/
LOCATION:IL
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250329T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250116T164222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T230030Z
UID:10000288-1743271200-1743282000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:Monee Historical Society will host \nTrivia Night on  \nSaturday\, March 29\, 2005 at 6:30 pm. \nDo you think you have all the answers? \nJOIN US FOR A MULTI-ROUND TRIVIA COMPETITION. \nBRING A TEAM OR JOIN ONE HERE. TEAMS OF 4-6 PEOPLE. \n6 PM – DOORS OPEN \n6:30 PM  TRIVIA BEGINS \n$25 PER PERSONTICKETS INCLUDE SNACKS\, SOFT DRINKS\, COFFEE & TEA CASH BAR AVAILABLE \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED – SIGN UP BELOW \nMONEE PARKS & REC BUILDING 5218 W. COURT ST. MONEE\, IL
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Monee Parks and Recreation Pavilion\, 5218 W. Court St\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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UID:10000216-1741888800-1741899600@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-03-13/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T150000
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CREATED:20250225T201549Z
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UID:10000311-1741438800-1741446000@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:Heritage Day - The History of Russell Publications
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Meet-And-Greet with newspaperman and Russell Family historian Chris Russell to discuss the legacy that his family made in publications for Monee and the surrounding towns.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/heritage-day-the-history-of-russell-publications/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250308T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250211T155508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T155509Z
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SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book set in the Jazz Age in New York\, first published in 1925 in the United States.\nThe novel follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The plot revolves primarily around the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his bizarre passion and obsession with the lovely former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby\, considered Fitzgerald’s magnum opus\, explores themes of decadence\, idealism\, resistance to change\, social upheaval\, and excess\, painting a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale about the American Dream. \n  \n 
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club-2/2025-03-08/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250306T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250114T194503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T194503Z
UID:10000276-1741287600-1741294800@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:American History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst. \nReinhold Kulle seemed like the perfect school employee. But in 1982\, as his retirement neared\, his long-concealed secret came to light. The chief custodian at Oak Park and River Forest High School outside Chicago had been a Nazi\, a member of the SS\, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during World War II. \nSimilar revelations stunned communities across the country. Hundreds of Reinhold Kulles were gradually discovered: men who had patrolled concentration camps\, selected Jews for execution\, and participated in mass shootings—and who were now living ordinary suburban lives. As the Office of Special Investigations raced to uncover Hitler’s men in the United States\, neighbors had to reconcile horrific accusations with the helpful\, kind\, and soft-spoken neighbors they thought they knew. Though Nazis loomed in the American consciousness as evil epitomized\, in Oak Park—a Chicago suburb renowned for its liberalism—people rose to defend Reinhold Kulle\, a war criminal. \nDrawing on archival research and insider interviews\, Oak Park and River Forest High School teacher Michael Soffer digs into his community’s tumultuous response to the Kulle affair. He explores the uncomfortable truths of how and why onetime Nazis found allies in American communities after their gruesome pasts were uncovered.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/american-history-book-club-7-2/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250215T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250215T113000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20250115T203031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T203031Z
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SUMMARY:Classic Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling\, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play’s title comes from a line in Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem\,” which warns that a dream deferred might “dry up/like a raisin in the sun.” \n“The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun\,” said The New York Times. “It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic.”
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/classic-book-club/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260603T165519
CREATED:20241218T214919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T173848Z
UID:10000215-1739469600-1739480400@moneehistoricalsociety.com
SUMMARY:MHS Membership meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly membership meetings.  Details and special speakers will follow.
URL:https://moneehistoricalsociety.com/event/mhs-membership-meeting-10/2025-02-13/
LOCATION:Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery\, 5210 W Court Street\, Monee\, IL\, 60449\, United States
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