Harold Washington Library tour

Library Tour

the length of tour will be about 2 hours

What:

• Chicago History & Genealogy resources
  
• Chicago historic Newspaper Collection (3rd floor microfilm room)
  
• City Directories from 1839-1917, 1924-1927 (3rd floor microfilm room)
  
• A unique collection housed in the Music Department
  
• Special Collections, including photographs, manuscripts, books, art and artifacts about:
  

Chicago neighborhoods

Chicago Public Library

Chicago Theater

Children’s books from Chicago

Civil War

Mayor Harold Washington

Rare books and manuscripts

World’s fairs

Logistics:

Transportation to the library is on your own.

For Metra riders, Union Station is 7 blocks from the Library.

CTA Purple Line leaving Wilmette and Evanston, prior to 9:25 am and returning after 2:30 pm express stops at the Harold Washington Library (State & Van Buren), as does the Brown line all day.  Red line and Blue line stops at Jackson, about 1 block from the Library.

Auto parking resource: https://spothero.com/chicago/harold-washington-library-parking

Additional information

On Tuesday, May 16th, we will meet at the at the Plymouth Ct. entrance between 1:30 and 1:45pm

For additional information on what is available at the library on microfilm, visit this blog:

http://nickmgombash.blogspot.com/2017/04/genealogy-resources-at-harold.html

Information and map for the Harold Washington Library is at this website:

https://www.chipublib.org/locations/15/