West Chicago Public Library

The West Chicago Public Library is the public library serving the city of West Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 118 West Washington street in downtown West Chicago. The library has a collection of 83,711 items that includes books, audio CDs, movies, magazines, video games, and other nonbook materials making up their Library of Things, and recorded a total of 109,029 library visits in 2018. West Chicago Public Library is part of the System Wide Automated Network , which connects 97 libraries in many Chicago suburbs. They are a member of OCLC's global cooperative and RAILS delivery service.
Library services in West Chicago date back to 1856, when the Congregational Church included a library. In 1894, a reading room was established in the Bolles Opera House which was open two nights a week. The library began to organize and, by 1895, was open seven days a week. A volunteer library opened in 1929 on the second floor of the old City Hall, and in 1934 the Library became a municipal library. The library moved several times to different locations on Main Street before they moved to 332 E. Washington St. in February 1954, with State Senator Lottie Holman O’Neill as guest speaker at the groundbreaking. The West Chicago VFW stepped up to raise money for a new kardex and provide the new building with a flagpole. Adult books were held on the second floor, where moveable shelves made it possible to get caught in the middle of two shelves when more than one person was searching for books.
A wing was added to the building in 1958. The West Chicago Public Library District was formed on May 1, 1986 as the result of a successful referendum converting the Library from a municipal to a district library. The Library District celebrated the opening of its current 27,052 square foot facility located on West Washington Street in August, 1993.

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