The Main Entrance: Unfortunately we couldn't get past this point on our visit. The security guard had a chuckle and turned us away after reminding us that we couldn't take any more pictures...
- Walter Loomis Newberry willed in 1850s, when no public library in Chicago existed
- Library chartered in 1887
- 21,000 reference inquiries and 23,400 reader days last year
- 5,800 registered readers
- 1,500,000 printed titles
- 5,000,000 manuscript pages
- 300,000 maps
- Largest collection of rare books in Chicago
- All non-circulating
- High security
- Admission requires one to be 16 Years of age or junior in high school, to have a library card, and to have a feasable research purpose for using the library.
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