- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2013
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One Book, One Chicago will be talking The Warmth of Other Suns for a full year
The Chicago Public Library announces its latest selection: You'll be reading Isabel Wilkerson's book for the next year.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 5, 2013
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Chicago Public Library presents free documentary screenings for Women's History Month
Noting the monthlong citywide program
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2013
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Steve Musgrave's portrait of Obama and friends
The Chicago Public Library unveils Steve Musgrave's portrait of President Barack Obama, with a key to his friends.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 17, 2012
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Reader's Agenda, Mon 12/17: Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Kartemquin directors, and Bret Slater
What's on the Agenda for Monday, December 17, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 12, 2012
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Ask a librarian, and then listen
A research project leads me out of the digital cocoon
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Aug 13, 2012
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The Albany Park library puts on a disappearing act
There's a "big vision" for the neighborhood branch, but it includes shutting down for two years
- You Are Here, Zoom in, Jul 12, 2012
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Zoom in: West Lawn
A Chicago Public Library branch used to house a little person's tavern
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2012
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The Reader's Agenda: Wed 6/13
What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, June 13, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2012
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Spared the knife
As the police ranks shrink in the first year under Rahm Emanuel, mayoral aides get higher pay
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 9, 2012
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Prints of the city
Chicago Film Archives launches its first-ever sale of 16-millimeter holdings from the old public library collection
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2012
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Midcentury Pittsburgh and "Detroitism"
Representing black urban life, then and now
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Feb 2, 2012
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The sword is mightier than the pen
Mayor Emanuel cuts library staff and drives out the system's biggest advocate
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 27, 2012
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Wake up, everybody: Linda Lutton tells it like it is about CPS
Linda Lutton and other reporters blow the whistle on the CPS rent-a-protester movement.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2012
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The Tim Floyd era begins at the Chicago Public Library
To understand what Mayor Emanuel's doing to libraries, see what Jerry Krause did to the Bulls
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2012
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Mayor Emanuel: Money for CME, cuts for public libraries
Mayor Emanuel gives developers money and closes libraries on Mondays
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2012
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A resolution for 2012: Watch more Indian movies
One American film critic vows to watch more Indian movies
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 23, 2011
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Library envy
As Mayor Emanuel cuts, his hometown shows how to invest in a library
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 8, 2011
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Augie March-inspired flash fiction contest
Submit your 750-word version of the Great American Novel to a flash fiction writing contest.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2011
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Chicago Public Library announces this fall's One Book, One Chicago selection
The Chicago Public Library's pick for its 2011 Fall citywide reading program is Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 2, 2011
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CPL Design Contest and Library Lounge
The Chicago Public Library announces a design contest and happy hour.
