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…

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…

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

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