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The Kenosha Public Library (KPL) serves the city of Kenosha, and is the resource library for the KCLS. [4] The library has an Outreach department and five branches: [5] [4] Simmons Neighborhood Library (1900) Uptown Neighborhood Library (1925) Southwest Neighborhood Library (1981, rebuilt 2004). The KCLS main resource library.
Southwest Neighborhood Library (1981, rebuilt 2004). The KCLS main resource library. Northside Neighborhood Library (1993) Kids@Uptown Lofts (2024) The library offers audiobook, e-book, and eMagazine services, including OverDrive eBooks & eAudiobooks, TeachingBooks Library, Ebsco eBooks, and Online tutoring, delivered via the library's website. [6]
The city agreed, and the library opened to the public on May 30, 1900. [5] [6] As the city's first public library building, Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library greatly increased the volumes of literature available to the citizens of Kenosha. By the mid-1910s, the library had 124,368 volumes and sought to expand with a branch library. [7]
Kenosha's Library Park is the home of Food Folks and Spokes, a festival with food booths, entertainment, and a bicycle race that is the first leg of the Tour of America's Dairyland. [156] It was formerly part of the International Cycling Classic's "Superweek".
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A small library opened in a room above a hardware store, but the collection quickly outgrew the small locale. In 1898, Zalmon G. Simmons donated funds for a new library in the center of Central Park. When the Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library was completed, the park became known as Library Park. Simmons also offered to provide the funding for ...
Kenosha County (/ k ə ˈ n oʊ ʃ ə / ⓘ) is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 169,151 as of the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous county in Wisconsin. [1] [2] The county shares the same name as its county seat, the city of Kenosha, [3] the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. [1]
An elderly straphanger was randomly shoved onto subway tracks at the Herald Square station in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, according to police.