Devils in the White City at Thomas Ford Library, Saturday, February 13, 2pm

In this Kennedy History Lecture, author and historian Richard C. Lindberg presents a program recalling some of the most infamous criminals of an earlier era, based on his 2011 book “Heartland Serial Killers.” Mr. Lindberg’s slide presentation covers the strange and shocking crimes of Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, H.H. Holmes (the “Devil in the White City”), Fall River, Massachusetts murderess Lizzie Borden and Amy Archer Gilligan, the woman who inspired the famous movie “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Saturday, February 13, 2-3 p.m. Thomas Ford Memorial Library, 800 Chestnut St., Western Springs, IL 60546. (708) 246-0520 fordlibrary.org/events