Recently opening on the library’s first floor, the Carole E. and Alfred Stroh Reading Room is a dedicated quiet space for reading and studying offering flexible seating, making it an option for ...

The Chicago Public Library is trying to keep the world from checking out all its ebooks. Suburbanites will have to show grit to preserve access to services.

The reading room, which seats 180, will be fully accessible to University of Chicago library patrons starting May 16. The preliminary process of moving printed materials into the library’s underground ...

Shamus Toomey, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...

Explore the Little Italy, Thomas Hughes, Bucktown-Wicker Park and Chinatown branches — top Chicago Public Library spots packed with fun for kids and teens.

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 ...

The Chicago Public Library is breaking records this year with its citywide Summer Reading Program.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- It's a great day to head to the library! Tuesday is National Book Lovers Day, and good news: Chicago Public Library 's Summer Reading challenge is still going on.

Seeking to offer River North residents a way to more easily pick up books they’ve ordered, a Chicago Public Library reading room is now open in the Water Works building on North Michigan Avenue.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An annual initiative encouraging students to read books over summer vacation is now underway. Chicago's first lady Amy Rule read to children at the Chicago Public Library in ...

In the entire Chicago Public Library system, there is no place like Blackstone, the city’s oldest branch, built in the gilded age year of 1904.