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granted [1] Grant amount [1] Location Notes 1: Aledo Aledo: May 21, 1913: $10,000 200 N. College Ave. In June 1974, the Mercer Carnegie Library was one of two buildings in Aledo named “Landmarks in Mercer County” by the Historic Sites Division of the Illinois Department of Conservation. Closed as a library in April 2019 upon opening of new ...
Waterloo is located northeast of the center of Monroe County at (38.335243, -90.152685). [5] Illinois Route 3 passes through the west side of the city, bypassing the downtown; it leads north 8 miles (13 km) to Columbia and southeast 13 miles (21 km) to Red Bud.
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The library system has worked with the Illinois Library Association and received support from the American Library Association Digital Content Working Group, the Public Library Association (PLA), and the Illinois Heartland Library System on the annual Soon to be Famous Illinois Author project, which recognizes a self-published author of adult ...
The A. Herr and E. E. Smith Public Library is a historic public library located at 105 Adams Street in Loda, Illinois. The library's origins date back to 1858, when the Loda Literary Society was formed. The society originally had no permanent site for its book collection, and it traveled through several town buildings before the society formed ...
Josiah Reade established the first public library in Lombard at the First Church of Lombard in 1905. [5] The Helen Plum Library and Lilacia Park were founded in 1927, according to the will of the late Colonel William R. Plum. [6] [7]: 190–191 Josiah Reade's collection was moved to the new library. The library was originally located in Plum's ...
The Illinois State Library is currently housed in the purpose-built library rededicated as the Gwendolyn Brooks State Library in 2003. [8] The library which was designed by Chicago architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White. [6] Construction took five years to complete and cost just under 36 million dollars when it was complete in ...
The Henry E. Legler Regional Branch of the Chicago Public Library, also called the Legler Library, the Legler Regional Library, or the Legler Branch, is a branch of the Chicago Public Library located at 115 S. Pulaski Road in the West Garfield Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. [2] The library was built in 1919 and opened on October 11 ...