Hidden in Plain Sight: Quilts and the Underground Railroad /Heritage Day at the Creamery
2024-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
The Heritage Center will be open from 10 am – 3 pm. Presentation at 1:00 pm

Celebrate National Volunteer Week with us!
2024-04-23 13:00 - 19:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Thank you for all you do! Come and enjoy pizza and friendship!

Membership Meeting
2024-05-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us as we welcome one of the oldest land surveying & map making companies in Chicago.
Meeting starts earlier at 6:00 pm with the presentation at 7:00 pm
Membership has it’s advantages!

Women of Monee Through Herstory
2024-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us on Saturday May 11 as we tell the stories of the women that influenced and help build Monee.

Monee Children's Art and Essay Display
2024-05-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Let’s celebrate the many talents of local children!

Mystery Book Club
2024-06-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 N First St, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
June selection:
Long Road to Mercy
By David Baldacci
Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare.

History Book Club
2024-06-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-07-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
June and July book selection is by renowned author Doris Kearns Goodwin.
This is a remarkable book about one of America’s most remarkable power couples during a truly remarkable period in world history.

Mrs. Furst's Charity Tea
2024-06-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Mrs. Furst’s Charity Tea
Benefiting
The Monee Women’s Club
&
The Monee Historical Society
Saturday June 8, 2024
1 PM – 4 PM
5359 W. Margaret Street, Monee, Illinois 60449
Hats & Gloves Encouraged But Not Required

*online ticket purchases include credit card service fee

Monee: A Call to Service
2024-07-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us on July 13th to learn about the Tuskegee Airmen from Robbins Historical Society Director Tyrone Haymore
and a personal history of the World War II Pacific Theater and Japan, from the son of Navy Signalman First Class Allan H. DeMuth.

History Book Club
2024-08-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Do you have a favorite history book that you would love to discuss? August is the perfect month for you! Attend our next club meeting and let your fellow readers in on your selection.

Monthly membership meeting
2024-08-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Membership has its advantages!
Come join us for our monthly membership meeting – stay to enjoy a little competition, fun & games!
Everyone is invited!

Andrew Gunderson Art Auction & Wine and Cheese Reception
2024-08-17 15:00 - 19:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us as we celebrate the life and art of Andrew Gunderson.
The day’s events will include a silent auction of original Gunderson artworks, the dedication and presentation of the Gunderson Roundabout in Monee, and a wine and cheese reception with live music and conversation among friends, old and new. There will also be a raffle for a Wine & More basket, with everything you need to have a wine tasting at home.
Tickets are available online or at MHS. Tickets include an exclusive MHS 150th celebration wine glass, entry to the reception, and 2 glasses of wine. $30 each or $50 per couple
All proceeds help to support the Monee Historical Society and its mission to educate, inspire, and enrich the community by preserving and promoting the rich history of the Monee area through its collections, events, and programming.

Mystery Book Club
2024-09-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 N First St, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
Welcome back to the 2024 Mystery Club!
September selection: Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will–searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier. Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim’s wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own–and she soon learns she’s asking questions someone doesn’t want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing could be her.

Free event. Please register at: www.peotonelibrary.org

Membership meeting
2024-09-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Mark your calendar to join us for our monthly membership meeting. Immediately following will be a presentation by Jeff Stevenson, Director & Curator of the Sculpture Park & Visual Arts at Governors State University.
Membership has its advantages!

Bailly Family Homestead Field Trip
2024-09-17 08:30 - 14:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come with us as we visit the homestead of Monee namesake Marie Bailly.
Meet up at MHS at 8:30 am, leaving at 8:45 am, join a carpool or provide your own transporation.
Plan to stop for lunch before returning to MHS approximately 1-2 pm. Call 708-534-8635 for more information.

Mystery Book Club
2024-10-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Peotone Public Library, 515 N First St, Peotone, IL, 60468, United States
October Selection: Hallowe’en Party (A Haunting in Venice) by Agatha Christie
At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence’. But first, he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer…
Free event. Please register at: www.peotonelibrary.org Please note the new time!

History Book Club
2024-10-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
October selection: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Eric Larson
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

Membership meeting
2024-10-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Mark your calendar to join us as we proudly host Dr. Megan VanGorder and her presentation of Mary Bickerdyke.
Membership has its advantages!

Stuffed Animal Workshop
2024-10-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Want a Moo-rie of your own? Come join the Peotone Public Library District and MHS for this Moo-velous Stuffed Animal Workshop.
Registration is required for this free event @ www.peotonelibrary.org
Please sign up only for the child/children who will be participating. Adults do not need to register for the event, but should accompanuy all children on the day of the event.

MHS Quilt Raffle
2024-11-09 11:30 - 12:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Quilt #2!

The first quilt is done & ready to be seen!
The quilt square is the railroad pattern, with a nod to the history of Monee. Quilting pattern is a stylized feather, in recognition of the first residents of our area.
The 150th patch is in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the Village of Monee, and lastly the many hands of the members of the Monee Historical Society who gave of their talents to help create the quilts.
The raffle will be held November 9th!

Membership Meeting
2024-11-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Come to the November Membership Meeting of MHS. All are invited!

MHS Annual Christmas Party
2024-12-09 18:00 - 22:00 | IL
Mark your calendar to join us on December 9 to celebrate the holiday season with all your MHS friends!
More details to follow.

MHS Membership meeting
2025-01-09 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Join us for our monthly membership meetings. Details and special speakers will follow.

Pizza for a Cause
2025-01-30 | Frankie’s “Touch of Italy” Pizzeria, 25921 S Governors Hwy, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Let Frankie’s do the cooking and help MHS at the same time!

American History Book Club
2025-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
Evan Thomas’s startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time

Classic Book Club
2025-02-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
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.”
“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.”

American History Book Club
2025-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
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.
Reinhold 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.
Similar 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.
Drawing 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.

Classic Book Club
2025-03-08 10:30 - 11:30 | Monee Heritage Center at the Creamery, 5210 W Court Street, Monee, IL, 60449, United States
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.
The 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.
