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Along for the ride: Judson in Elgin named Bicycle Friendly University

By Ralph Banasiak, Along for the Ride
Dec 01, 2025 9:49 am - With holidays approaching, my annual book reviews offer suggestions for biking gift lists, your own or others. First, however, positive bicycling news: League of American Bicyclists recently awarded official Bicycle Friendly University status to three Illinois institutions on Nov. 13, including Elgin’s Judson University.
The 10 best thrillers of 2025

By Washington Post Editors and Reviewers
Nov 21, 2025 9:20 am - The year’s best thrillers whisk readers to vast wildernesses and haunted houses, small-town Virginia and the tony Hamptons. Danger, it turns out, lurks everywhere.
At 81, Joy Williams is as good as she’s ever been

By Jake Cline
Nov 20, 2025 2:48 pm - “The demands of living have consequences,” a haunted young mother says in Joy Williams’ 1978 novel, “The Changeling,” “and that is called fate.” The woman’s brother-in-la...
Scrooge revisited: MCC professors to present a new take on ‘A Christmas Carol’

By Katie Van Dyne, McHenry County College
Nov 19, 2025 9:43 am - McHenry County College invites the community to get in the holiday spirit with a thought-provoking twist on a timeless classic. “A Christmas Carol Revisited: Scrooge’s Reclamation” will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the college’s Black Box Theatre, with festive pre-show music beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Patti Smith is more candid than ever in her book ‘Bread of Angels’

By Maureen Corrigan
Nov 17, 2025 9:48 am - If Patti Smith’s “Bread of Angels” lacks the strong coming-to-New York plot line of “Just Kids,” it feels more intimate than either of its predecessors, which are both graced and obscured by Smith’s enigmatic writing style.
Illinois’ new Poet Laureate to speak to St. Charles Writers Group

By Denise Blaszynski, St. Charles Public Library
Nov 14, 2025 11:07 pm - On Nov. 22, the St. Charles Writers Group is hosting Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte as the guest speaker. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Anishinaabe, he spent his early years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and migrant camps across the western U.S.
From gowns to pantsuits, Michelle Obama explains her iconic fashion picks in ‘The Look’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Nov 13, 2025 11:52 am - On any day during her eight years as first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama said she could go from giving a speech to meeting with a counterpart from another country to digging in her vegetable garden with groups of schoolchildren. And her clothes had to be ready for that, which she details in her new book, “The Look.”
Elmhurst’s GreenMan Theatre puts out call for plays for its sixth annual ‘8 to the Bar’ festival

By Sharon Bopp, GreenMan Theatre Troupe
Nov 11, 2025 3:42 pm - GreenMan Theatre Troupe has selected “Lights! Camera! Action!” as the prompt for its sixth annual play festival of eight 10-minute plays — “8 to the Bar” — to be performed July 2026 in Villa Park, Ill.
Writer David Szalay wins prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with his earthy novel ‘Flesh’

By JILL LAWLESS
Nov 11, 2025 8:04 am - Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of one man’s life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn’t on the page is just as important as what is.
What book to read next? 16 Post readers share their choices.

By Nora Krug
Nov 10, 2025 10:21 pm - Looking for a good read? Readers wrote in to The Washington Post about what they are currently reading — in print — and what they like about the books. From historical fiction to memoirs, classics to bestsellers, we think you’ll find something to pick up for yourself.

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