The library incorporates the brick walls, bow-truss ceiling, and skylights of the older buildings. Images courtesy of Tom Harris Photography Beyond being popular gathering and study space for ...
Since its humble beginnings as a reading room inside a repurposed water tower tank in 1873, the Chicago Public Library system has sprouted 81 branches. Throughout its history, the CPL has occupied a ...
An international design competition for Chicago`s proposed central public library has attracted entries from six teams of architects and contractors, far fewer than officials expected when the contest ...