The $800 million campus also includes meeting rooms, an auditorium, restaurants, community gardens and teaching kitchens, an ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and inspire the future. In Chicago, the public library serves as a hub ...

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Chicago Public Library Foundation Awards: A legacy of words, art and community Colson Whitehead, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award at the Chicago ...

A Black-owned concrete subcontractor tasked with the construction of the $830 million Obama Presidential Library in Chicago ...

1873: Chicago Public Library opened its doors at the southeast corner of LaSalle and Adams streets in a circular water tank that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. A large donation of books ...

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In fact, the Obama Foundation has named it the Obama Presidential “Center,” and the only books it might contain would come from the Chicago Public Library. In other words, it’s not really a ...

This file photo from July 1, 2020 shows the first floor of Chicago Public Library’s Merlo Branch in Lakeview. Libraries aren’t just for books anymore. Makerspaces have become widely popular ...