Yesterday, the city of Chicago inaugurated its Public Library’s 81 st branch, a 16,500-sf adaptive reuse of a two-story building in the Windy City’s West Loop neighborhood, which itself is being ...

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 ...