Tuley Park
About this Library
Tuley Park was created in 1907, and in 1925 a contract was awarded for construction of a library and other facilities in the park fieldhouse. The name honors Murray F. Tuley, a judge who was instrumental in framing the charter adopted by the City of Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871. The Tuley Park Library, located inside the Tuley Park Field House, opened for service on February 29, 1928.
Tuley Park serves the Burnside community, a small triangle surrounded by railroads in the center of the City's South Side. It is the smallest and least populous of the city's community areas.
Burnside grew with the railroads. In the 1880's the Illinois Central roundhouse and repair shop works at 95th and Cottage Grove brought Poles, Hungarians, and Italians, who built brick and frame two-flats. Mexican immigrants employed in the steel mills moved into the area in the 1950s.