While employees the Tribune spoke with acknowledged that safety has always been a concern at Harold Washington and at the Chicago Public Library more broadly, employees allege that the issue has ...

Christina Ernst has drawn millions of TikTok views for her whimsical fashion projects that incorporate coding and circuitry. Through She Builds Robots, she hopes to encourage more young women to enter ...

In a letter, U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks is urging President Donald Trump to reinstate former Librarian of Congress Carla ...

Starting May 1, the Chicago Public Library (CPL) is rolling out some major policy shifts—and you’re going to want to bookmark this. First up: eCards are officially being retired. Until now ...

The library’s summer reading program starts this week, giving people of all ages an opportunity to read library books or ...

CHICAGO - Former President Barack Obama made several stops in Chicago to discuss details of the Obama Presidential Center, ...

She went to New York on vacation and loved it and never went back, angering the Chicago Public Library. [Chuckles] I hadn't been there too long when I began trying to write plays, and then in a ...

CHICAGO — On a good day, Christopher Crotwell said he will usually leave his job of eight years at Harold Washington Library feeling sad. On a bad day, he will leave feeling angry. Crotwell ...

President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, via email, a move that immediately drew sharp ...

In addition to a world-class museum, the 19.3-acre campus will feature a gymnasium, a fruit and vegetable garden, a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground, and so much more,” the ...

The other one is the still-operational Robert A. Pastrick branch of the East Chicago Public Library system at 1008 W. Chicago Ave. Copeland said Carnegie funded 2,509 such libraries and East ...