The Daily Bean is back.
The coffee shop at the St. Charles Public Library is the result of a collaboration between library officials and the St. Charles Unit District 303 Transition Services team, which helps students with special needs between the ages of 18 and 22 adjust to more independent lifestyles.
The shop had been closed for much of the school year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but it reopened on Jan. 19 for the first time since November with the library open to the public and District 303 returning to at least partial in-person learning for all its students.
The library is temporarily located at the Haines building at 305 S. Ninth Street while a new $18.6 million facility is built at the southeast corner of Main Street and Fifth Avenue.