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The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. It consists of 81 locations, including a central library, three regional libraries, and branches distributed throughout the city's 77 Community Areas . [ 5 ]
The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 South State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi ...
Albany Park Library is a branch of the Chicago Public Library located at 3401 W. Foster Ave. in the North Park neighborhood of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was opened in 1963 [1] to serve both the Albany Park and North Park areas of Chicago, and is ADA compliant. It currently holds large collections of Korean and Spanish language ...
The same firm also designed the Harold Washington Library. [6] The $5.5 million, 65,000 square feet (6,000 m 2) building replaced the Frederick H. Hild Regional Library, [7] [8] named for the second librarian of the Chicago Public Library, who secured its first permanent home (now the Chicago Cultural Center). [9]
Humboldt Park Library - The current facility opened on July 13, 1996, and in 2013 had 5,000 square feet (460 m 2) of space added. [74] North Pulaski Library - The previous library burned on December 25, 1989. The current facility opened on June 15, 1996. [75] Richard M. Daley-West Humboldt Library - It began operations on July 8, 2011. [76]
Newberry Library; Location: Chicago, Illinois, US: Type: Independent research library Special library [1] Established: 1887: Criteria for collection: Humanities: Access and use; Access requirements: Age 14, with research interest served by the collection; open access digital collections online: Circulation: non-circulating reference library ...
Prior to the donation of the Blackstone Library, the Chicago Public Library System had been renting reading room spaces around the city and had been seeking stand alone branches. [1] On January 8, 1904, Isabella Blackstone handed the keys and deed to the Timothy B. Blackstone Library to the city's Library Board members.
On July 31, 2021, the new Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library opened across the street at 3541 Park Avenue. The original Carnegie library site currently serves as the Library's parking lot and Pollinator Garden. The concrete "Public Library" sign from the Carnegie library has been installed in the garden. 9: Carmi Carmi: Jan 14, 1914: $10,000