CHICAGO -- The ancient manuscript rested on the shelves of the Newberry Library for more than a century. Little was known about the bound book from colonial Mexico that had been donated to the library ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Newberry Library has named Astrida Orle Tantillo as ...

The Newberry Library, Chicago’s most famous independent research institution, is ready for the public to admire the fruits of a nine-month, $12.7 million renovation as well as a newly opened exhibit ...

Yes, the venerable Newberry Library is making a bid to be more welcoming and relevant with its multimillion-dollar first-floor makeover, being unveiled over these late summer weeks. No, the new lobby ...

Newberry Library sits at the north edge of Chicago’s Washington Square Park Curbed Chicago Flickr pool/Brule Laker The landmarked Newberry Library building in Chicago’s Gold Coast is moving forward ...

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Historian Richard Brown joined Chicago’s Newberry Library in the early 1970s, retired in 1994 as its academic vice president and continued to be involved with the library for the rest of his life. “If ...

Chicago, Aug. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Newberry Library and The Pattis Family Foundation are pleased to announce a new annual book award for published works that transform public understanding ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A team of researchers from Oklahoma has been in Chicago all week at the Newberry Library on the near North Side on a mission to rediscover old stories about the Cherokee Nation. A week ...

When Katherine Hamilton-Smith walked into the farmhouse in a distant suburb of Chicago in 1982, all it held was one chair and one telephone. She managed to turn it into a triage scene. For the first ...

Was Mike Royko the toughest man in Chicago? We shall see, I suppose, when a one-man play opens here in early September at the Chopin Theatre. Mitchell Bisschop is the author and star in what he has ...