In 1935 the Tiffany dome over the "delivery room" of the Chicago Public
The Library, first opened in 1897, became known as the "People's Palace".
| Free Chin worked in the Library in the late 1960's and wrote, "I used to work in the building when it was still the Central Library. There was a massive open framework of steel behind the main circulation desk that housed the closed storage stacks. This was only open to staff like me and housed overstock of books that were not out in the open stacks. It was a 2-story structure that on the second level had a floor made up of translucent glass blocks about 4" square. I never really noticed the dome back then." |