Library History Gallery

01/19/1939 -  The Wauconda Leader newspaper clipping of the opening of Wauconda Public Library

1939: Wauconda Women’s Club

Friends of the Library Charter members 1964 - 1965

Library trustees receiving the Build Illinois grant check in July, 1986 at the Osage Street library, pictured left to right: Paul Mulvaney, Secretary of State and State Librarian Jim Edgar, Board President Robert Jonak, State Senator Richard "Dick" Klemm, Marion Wight, Head Librarian David Erickson, Andy Gebhardt, Carol Kapheim, and Terry Stevig.  Trustee Sharon Crivello not pictured here.

1986 Daily Herald article about library grant

1896 Ground breaking by board and library management

1987 Grand opening of new library

Outside original library building 801 N. Main Street.  09/19/1987 - Library building Grand Opening

09/1992 -, the first issue of Focus, a 4-page newsletter promoting library services and events, was published and mailed to every household and business in the district.

OWPP preliminary design for new two-story facility - 1995

Library trustees cut the ribbon at the library's Grand Opening, September 28, 1997.  Pictured left to right: Bob Jonak, Carol Kapheim, Terry Stevig, Joanne Miller, Kathie Carr, and Peggy Whitman.

The Wauconda Area Library was named Library of the Year in March, 2005, by the North Suburban Library System (NSLS).

Library trustees after cutting the ribbon at the library's Grand Re-Opening, April 18, 2015.  Pictured left to right: Mary Hultquist, Gina Jefson, William Pankey, Ernie Kosty, Deb Hughes (standing), Joanne Miller, and Terry Stevig.  Library Director Tom Kern at far right is holding a letter of congratulations from Illinois State Comptroller Leslie Munger, presented at the ceremony.

2015 Grand re-opening

2004 - Wauconda Area Community Information Network websit

02/2016 - New Website debut after renovation