Chicago Public Library

Chicago Public Library One of the world’s largest city libraries, established in 1873. In 1990 the main library moved to an imposing new building, the Harold Washington Library Center. The library’s collection of musical scores includes more than 110,000 items. There are about 160,000 sound recordings. Music materials are housed in the music information center. Among the research collections of recordings are the Chicago Blues Archive, the New Music Chicago Festival tapes, the Made in Chicago…