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    Libraries - 2021 Circulation by Location

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2023

    Circulation figures include new checkouts as well as renewals. Chicago Public Library consists of the Harold Washington Library Center, Sulzer, Legler and Woodson regional libraries and over 70 neighborhood branches. Many locations experience sporadic closures to perform facilities upgrade or emergency closures due to heating or air conditioning issues, or area power outages Independence, Little Italy (formerly Roosevelt) and Northtown reopened in early 2019 in new locations. The library also opened its 81st location, West Loop, in January. Douglass and Jefferson Park were closed for extensive renovations for most of the year. Legler, South Shore and Merlo were also closed for extensive renovations and will remain closed until 2020. In response to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Public Library closed facilities to the public March 21, 2020 – June 7, 2020.

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    Metadata Created Date August 7, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2023

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    Harvested from Chicago JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 7, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2023
    Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/97es-3tbw
    Data First Published 2021-02-23
    Data Last Modified 2023-05-10
    Category Education
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 5c4666db-e445-4fbc-a432-9c25a7086923
    Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
    Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/97es-3tbw
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 62fce8ff69d85997586dc770f03d8f4fc1bd36d9a6aa35f7394dc65e66a56f92
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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