We invite you to join us on Friday, March 31st, for this year’s annual Night in the Stacks event! We will be celebrating in the Harold Washington Library’s Winter Garden – fitting for this year’s theme of “Garden of the Curious.”
Music and poet sensation, Noname, speaks on the role YOUmedia played in her life and career growing up in Chicago’s South Side.
The Chicago Public Library One Book, One Chicago program is well underway with exciting programs, classes and more! Find out what’s happening this spring.
Although she lives closest to the Edgewater Library Branch, Aurelija Fitzpatrick, a member of our Junior Board, frequents Harold Washington the most. Loving new sights and scenes, she visits Harold Washington for a respit from work – and she travels the world to explore new scenes abroad. Here, Aurelija shares her current reads and some fun tales of her travels.
CPL harnesses the energy of the maker movement and emerges as an innovation leader in the city with the Maker Lab. Learn more here.
Meet the President of the Chicago Public Library Foundation Junior Board, Angela Burke, and learn why she’s passionate about her volunteerism with the Chicago Public Library Foundation.
The Boeing Company likes to say it makes the impossible, possible. “From producing a single canvas-and-wood airplane to transforming how we fly over oceans and into the stars…” And it’s that reaching for the stars, and inspiring young people with possibilities, that distinguish the transformative programs Boeing supports through its gifts to the Chicago Public Library Foundation.
In each and every neighborhood in our city, Chicago Public Library is a gateway to opportunity for all. Now more than ever, we need our community to come together to support one of the most radically inclusive institutions in our city.
When someone makes an extraordinary mark on the world, how do you best sustain that work after he is gone? For the McMullan family, it wasn’t just about sustaining the spirit of husband/father James McMullan, it was how to scale his remarkable legacy, strengthen its impact and broaden its reach for years to come.