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With $500,000 from the Plaedes Foundation, the Lincoln Branch was remodeled in 1993. [3] In June 2009, the library was designed by the City of Peoria as a local historic landmark. [4] The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 28, 2014. [1]
Henry Eduard Legler assumed the leadership of the Chicago Public Library on October 11, 1909. Previously a Wisconsin Progressive, he was well known as an aggressive advocate of the expansion of library service. In 1916, Legler presented his "Library Plan for the Whole City", the first comprehensive branch library system in the nation.
In 1872, the Illinois State Legislature created a law giving city councils the power to tax citizens for public library funding, effectively creating the public library system in Illinois. [10] The Rock Island City Council was quick to implement the new tax, and the Rock Island Public Library opened its doors on November 25, 1872, with Miss ...
Circuit judges are generally elected on a circuit-wide basis or from the county where they reside. (In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 24 circuits in Illinois, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county ...
Since the library was already receiving $6,000 per year due to a city library tax the agreement with Carnegie was met and the library opened in 1904. [ 3 ] In 1969, this library became too small to meet the needs of the growing city around it, and a $500,000 renovation took place to completely replace the library with a building triple its size.
The Evanston Public Library has a Main Library, located at 1703 Orrington Avenue, and the Robert Crown Branch Library, located in the Robert Crown Community Center at 1801 Main Street. The Robert Crown Branch was opened in 2020 in response to an equity audit and plan that prioritized resourcing Evanston's historically underserved neighborhoods ...
Interior of the library, 1904. As one of the 79 Chicago Public Library branch libraries, Blackstone Library serves the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Oakland community areas. These communities include 17 elementary schools and 4 high schools. [4] The 2000 census service area population was 50,084. [4]
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 ...