The Historian · Nora · Chicago
Harold Washington Library Center
They named the main library for Harold Washington — the mayor whose 1983 election broke the machine. The naming is the history.
The 1991 central library, named for Chicago's first Black mayor, its facade studded with granite and bronze owls.
— Nora, The Historian
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