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 ...

After years of unprecedented growth and development, the West Loop neighborhood finally has a Chicago Public Library Branch to go along with its new apartment towers, office buildings, hotels, and ...

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 ...