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3 unusual facts about Harold Washington Library


Harold Washington Library

Since completion, the library has appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest public library building in the world.

John B. Duff

While at that post, he supervised the construction of the Harold Washington Library, the world’s largest public library.

Kent Bloomer

Some of Bloomer's major works include the ornament on the Harold Washington Library in Chicago and ornament in the Ronald Reagan National Airport.


Events in the Life of Harold Washington

Events in the Life of Harold Washington is a mural at Chicago’s central library, the Harold Washington Library, named after Harold Washington, who was Chicago’s first Black mayor, by Jacob Lawrence commissioned in 1991.


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