Sherman Park
About this Library
The Sherman Park Library was established as a branch of the Chicago Public Library on November 10, 1910, in a club room of the Sherman Park Field House. The Library and the Park were named for John B. Sherman, founder of the Chicago Stock Yards.
Adjoining Sherman Park was built by the South Park Commission in the early 1900s following a landscape design by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed the Chicago system of Boulevards, including nearby Garfield Boulevard.
In 1931, a campaign for a larger library was launched by school principals, parents, and influential businessman of the Sherman Park community who felt the needs of the community had outgrown the small facilities located in the field house. In 1933, through the Public Works Administration, the Chicago Public Library was able to obtain a federal grant to finance the building of a new library. The current building was officially opened to the public on October 18, 1937.