🌱 Summer Reading Club: Sea Quest #8 and 11 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• Horizon Soccer Summer Camp at Libertyville Township Soccer Complex
• Summer Reading Club: Sea Quest #8 at Lake Bluff Public Library

Today's riddle: If you feed me I will grow and if you give me water I will die. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Sun giving way to clouds, with a high of 85 and low of 70 degrees.
• Friday: Rain and a thunderstorm, temps: high: 80, low: 67.
• Saturday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 73 and low of 65 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Knollwood

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★ Featured events ★

Monday August 3

• Horizon Soccer Summer Camp →
  Libertyville Township Soccer Complex, 30080 Technology Way, Libertyville
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Friday July 31

• Summer Reading Club: Sea Quest #8 →
  Lake Bluff Public Library, 123 E Scranton Ave, Lake Bluff
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday July 30

• MainStreet Libertyville Farmers Market
  GLMV Chamber of Commerce 1123 S. Milwaukee Avenue, 2nd Floor BankFinancial, Libertyville, IL 60048
  7:00 am
• Business Builders Network
  GLMV Chamber of Commerce Townee Square Restaurant, 508 N. Milwaukee Ave in Libertyville.
  7:30 am
• Sweat, Talk, And Rise Up fitness classes
  Oak Park - River Forest (OPRF) Chamber of Commerce Yoga Lofts Studios at 115 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL
  10:30 am
• American Red Cross Blood Drive - Club Five Health
  GLMV Chamber of Commerce Club Five Health 1163 S Milwaukee Ave Libertyville, IL 60048
  12:00 pm
• Common Pieces
  Brighton Park Branch Library 4314 South Archer Avenue, Chicago, IL 60632
  1:00 pm
• Mammals and More with Flying Fox Conservation Fund
  Sherman Park Branch Library 5440 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60609
  2:00 pm
• Friends' 50th Anniversary Event Featuring Actress Jenny Riddle at R
  Lake Forest Library 1260 N Green Bay Rd, Lake Forest, IL, 60045, US
  4:00 pm
• Summer Activities / Actividades de verano
  Sherman Park Branch Library 5440 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60609
  4:00 pm
• Paint Along With Artist Vanessa De La Torre
  Brighton Park Branch Library 4314 South Archer Avenue, Chicago, IL 60632
  5:00 pm
• Alumni Focus Group
  North Chicago Community High Sch (Computer Lab)-NCCHS-1-B110-NCCHS - LRC B110
  6:00 pm
• Trivia Night at Back of the Yards Coffeehouse
  Sherman Park Branch Library 5440 South Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60609
  6:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Lake Bluff

• Evo Lawn – Landscape Opens Fall 2026 Lawn Aeration Scheduling for Lake County Homeowners (yourdigitalwall.com)
• Warning: Credit Unions May Face Another Year Of Fierce Deposit Wars (cutoday.info)
• Several Lake County Beaches Closed Due To High Levels Of Fecal Bacteria (patch.com)

North Chicago

• Corporate Counsel-Patent (abbvie.com)
• Senior Scientist, II Biologics & Genetic Medicine - LCMS Characterization & Bioanalysis (abbvie.com)

Libertyville

• Libertyville Hit By Storm Outages; Village Offices Temporarily Closed (patch.com)
• Libertyville Man Sentenced For Threatening Federal Judges (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Fire (Thank you Danielle K. for sending it in!)
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