. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ree, 28 are reference, and 158are both circulating and reference. The free public libraries in the State containing3,000 volumes and over, in 1896, amounted to following list includes those of this class con-taining 10,000 volumes and over: Chicago, Public Library . (1896) 217,065 Peoria, 57,604 Springfield, 28,639 Rockford, 28,000 Quincv, and Reading Room 19,400 Galesburg 18,469 Elgin, Gail Borden Public Library . 17,000 Bloomington, Withers ... Evanston, Free ... 15,515 Decatur, ... BelleviUe, ... 14,511 Aurora, ... 14,350 Rock Isl
. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ree, 28 are reference, and 158are both circulating and reference. The free public libraries in the State containing3,000 volumes and over, in 1896, amounted to following list includes those of this class con-taining 10,000 volumes and over: Chicago, Public Library . (1896) 217,065 Peoria, 57,604 Springfield, 28,639 Rockford, 28,000 Quincv, and Reading Room 19,400 Galesburg 18,469 Elgin, Gail Borden Public Library . 17,000 Bloomington, Withers ... Evanston, Free ... 15,515 Decatur, ... BelleviUe, ... 14,511 Aurora, ... 14,350 Rock Island, ... 12,634 Joliet, ... 23,325 The John Crerar Library (a scientific referencelibrary)—established in the City of Chicago in1894, on the basis of a bequest of the late JohnCrerar, estimated as amounting to fully S3,000,-000—is rapidly adding to its resources, having,in the four years of its history, acquired over40,000 volumes. With its princely endowment, BH^^HK i W ^^^^^^F 5> rcz c y tn?3 O illrllB ft ?P p^ tiling SL. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 335 it is destined, in the course of a few jears. to bereckoned one of the leading libraries of its classin the United States, as it is one of the mostmodern and carefully selected. The Newberry and Chicago Historical SocietyLibraries fill an important place for reference pur-poses, especially on historical subjects. A tardybeginning has been made in building up a StateHistorical Library in Springfield; but, owing tothe indifference of the Legislature and the meagersupport it has received, the State which was, fornearly a hundred years, the theater of the mostimportant events in the development of the Mis-sissippi Valley, has, as yet, scarcely accomplishedanything worthy of its name in collecting andpreserving the records of its own history. In point of historical origin, next to the IllinoisState Library, which dates from the admissionof the State into the Union in 1818, the oldestlibrary in the State is that of t
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