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Chicago Public Library


Title	Chicago Public Library
Description	Caption: "The Chicago Public Library". From text: "The Chicago Public Library is a free public institution, established under the Illinois library law of 1872, and maintained by the city as part of its public educational system. It derives its revenue from an annual library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is governed by a Board of Directors of nine members appointed by the Mayor and holding office for three years. It is housed in a building built entirely at the public expense, which ranks among the largest and finest library buildings in the country. It is accessibly situated on a tract of public land half a square in extent, on Michigan boulevard, fronting eastward upon Grant Park, at a point almost equidistant from the north and south limits of the city."
Date	1911
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagopubliclib11chic_01.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagopubliclib11chic#page/n3/mode/1up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Chicago Public Library
Subject	Public libraries
Coverage-Spatial	The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Date of Content	1910-1919
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Buildings
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	The Chicago public library; a handbook
Author of the Book	Chicago Public Library.
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagopubliclib11chic

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