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Tag Archives: Centennial celebrations

Centennial Stories: Cook Library’s First Forty Years

It’s the podcast’s 100th episode! And what better way to celebrate than by exploring the library’s own 100th birthday. As part of Cook Library’s Centennial Celebration, Local History Librarian Jenny Barry walks us through the first 40 years of the Cook Memorial Public Library up until 1960. Hear what it was like using the library…

November 5, 2021 in Podcast, The Past Is Present.

Library History B. C. E. (Before Cook memorial library Existed)

The library has something to celebrate! 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Cook Memorial Public Library. The doors of the former residence of Ansel B. Cook opened to the public as a space for books and reading on October 22, 1921 [1]. In the intervening 100 years, library service has changed a lot, but…

April 9, 2021 in The Past Is Present.

Mundelein: A history. Part six: Recessions and recoveries, 2002-2017.

Welcome back to the last installment of my series on the history of Mundelein. I usually would have ended my series with my last post, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned while writing these, our present will eventually be someone’s past, so why not make the lives of those future local historians a bit…

October 4, 2017 in The Past Is Present.

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