Neighborhoods Served
- Uptown
- Buena Park
- Lakeview
History
- Uptown Branch opened June 5, 1993.
- The branch’s architectural style is a tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School of Architecture.
- In 1998, the branch’s "Not So Secret" garden won Mayor Richard M. Daley’s landscape awards contest for best new garden; in 1999 it won in the public institutions garden category.
Artwork
- a painting entitled “Through the Opening of the Heart”
- Uptown Branch also features artwork funded through the Percent for Art Ordinance administered by the City of Chicago Public Art Program, including:
- etchings by Brian Bakke
- a painting by Nancy Chunn
- paintings by Mary Jones
- mixed media installation by Mr. Imagination
- a textile by Robin Whitespear
