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Harold Washington Library Center
400 S. State Street, 60605

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  • Mon 09:00 AM-09:00 PM
  • Tue 09:00 AM-09:00 PM
  • Wed 09:00 AM-09:00 PM
  • Thu 09:00 AM-09:00 PM
  • Fri 09:00 AM-05:00 PM
  • Sat 09:00 AM-05:00 PM
  • Sun 01:00 PM-05:00 PM

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Photo by Antonio Dickey
The Harold Washington Library Center opened October 7, 1991. Thomas H. Beeby and his colleagues in the firm Hammond, Beeby and Babka, as a part of the Sebus Group, won a design/build competition for Chicago's new Central Library in June of 1988. This 756,640 square foot neo-classical building appeared in The Guinness Book of Records as the largest public library building in the world.

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