in Chicago. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images In 2022, construction of the library was halted for several days after a noose was found on site. Concrete work ended in October 2024, according to ...

Ayer 1485, a Nahuatl-language manuscript, sits in the conservation lab at Newberry Library on the Near North Side on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. [Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/TNS] Eileen T. Meslar ...

How has the Chicago Public Library impacted your life? Read four other Chicagoans’ stories — and share yours for a chance to win CPL prizes and swag. Maybe it’s story time at the Thomas Hughes ...

Kimberly Nichols, director of conservation at the Newberry Library, on Jan. 28, 2025, holds a woodblock carving of a tawny owl made by Thomas Bewick in the late 1700s. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago ...

They reported from Washington. The incoming Trump administration has planned for “post-inauguration” immigration raids in Chicago next week, according to two people familiar with the planning ...