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Director. Chris Brown [3] Employees. 958 [4] Website. chipublib.org. 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.
T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is a building that is part of the Chicago Public Library System and is named after Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman. It is now known as the Chicago Public Library – Blackstone Branch and commonly referred to as Blackstone Library, or Blackstone Branch and ...
Hammond, Beeby and Babka. 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 S. 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 ...
A partnership between Chicago Public Library and Chicago Housing Authority, Northtown Apartments and the new Northtown Branch Library are located at 6800 N. Western Avenue. [9] The project was designed by Perkins + Will and features 44 apartments designated for senior use on top of a 16,000 square foot library. The library opened on March 5 ...
Coordinates: 41°57′46″N87°41′04″W41.96278°N 87.68444°W. Across from Welles Park. Conrad Sulzer Regional Library is one of three regional libraries in the Chicago Public Library system in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was named for Conrad Sulzer, the first white settler in what became Lakeview Township, whose family held ...
Albany Park Library. The library in 2004, which has since undergone renovation. 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 ...
Vivian Gordon Harsh (May 27, 1890 – August 17, 1960) was an American librarian. Harsh is noted as the Chicago Public Library (CPL) system's first African American librarian, being assigned to the position on February 26, 1924. Harsh served as a librarian for 34 years until retiring in 1958. During her career, she began an extensive archive on ...
Palatine, Illinois, US. Occupation. Librarian. Carl Bismarck Roden (June 7, 1871 – October 25, 1956) [1] was an American librarian and served as chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library from 1918 to 1950. [2] A lifelong resident of Norwood Park, Illinois, he began work as a library page in 1886. [3][4]