Chicago Public Library facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Chicago Public Library |
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| Established | 1873 |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Branches | 79 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 5,721,334 volumes (July 2010, ALA data) |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 10 million |
| Population served | 2.8 million |
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| Budget | $106,000,000 |
| Director | Brian A. Bannon |
| 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 has over 80 libraries in the city. The system was made in 1873.
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History
In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A.H. Burgess, with the aid of Thomas Hughes, drew up what would be called the "English Book Donation," which proposed that England should provide a free library to the burnt-out city. The Chicago Public Library was created directly from the ashes of the great Chicago Fire. Burgess wrote on December 7, 1871 in the London Daily News that "I propose that England should present a Free Library to Chicago, to remain there as a mark of sympathy now, and a keepsake and a token of true brotherly kindness forever..."
Branches
Central library
Harold Washington Library Center
Regional libraries
North
- Sulzer Regional Library
South
- Woodson Regional Library
North District
- Albany Park Branch
- Austin-Irving Branch
- Harold Bezazian Branch (Uptown)
- Bucktown-Wicker Park Branch
- Budlong Woods Branch
- Richard M. Daley (West Humboldt Park) Branch
- Dunning Branch
- Edgebrook Branch
- Edgewater Branch
- Galewood-Mont Clare Branch
- Humboldt Park Branch
- Independence Branch
- Jefferson Park Branch
- Lincoln-Belmont Branch
- Lincoln Park Branch
- Logan Square Branch
- Mayfair Branch
- John Merlo Branch
- North Austin Branch
- North Pulaski Branch
- Northtown Branch
- Oriole Park Branch
- Portage-Cragin Branch
- Roden Branch
- Rogers Park Branch
- Uptown Branch
- West Belmont Branch
Central District
- Austin Branch
- Back of the Yards Branch
- Blackstone Branch
- Brighton Park Branch
- Canaryville Branch
- Chicago Bee Branch
- Chinatown Branch
- Richard J. Daley Branch
- Douglass Branch
- Gage Park Branch
- Garfield Ridge Branch
- George Cleveland Hall Branch
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
- Legler Branch
- Little Village Branch
- Rudy Lozano Branch
- Mabel Manning Branch
- McKinley Park Branch
- Near North Branch
- Roosevelt Branch
- Sherman Park Branch
- Toman Branch
- Water Works Outpost
- West Chicago Avenue Branch
- West Town Branch
South District
- Altgeld Branch
- Avalon Branch
- Beverly Branch
- Brainerd Branch
- Chicago Lawn Branch
- Clearing Branch
- Bessie Coleman Branch
- Greater Grand Crossing Branch
- Hegewisch Branch
- Jeffery Manor Branch
- Kelly Branch
- Thurgood Marshall Branch
- Mount Greenwood Branch
- Pullman Branch
- Scottsdale Branch
- South Chicago Branch
- South Shore Branch
- Vodak East Side Branch
- Walker Branch
- West Englewood Branch
- West Lawn Branch
- West Pullman Branch
- Wrightwood-Ashburn Branch
- Whitney M. Young, Jr. Branch
Images for kids
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The original library, inside the old water tower on the site that is now the Rookery Building.
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This former water tower was the site of the original public library, exterior view
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The Blackstone Library built in 1904 is one of the oldest libraries in the city
See also
In Spanish: Biblioteca Pública de Chicago para niños
