Excerpt from A List of Books in the Reading Room, January, 1900 By the will of John Crerar, for many years an honored citizen of Chicago, who died October 19, 1889, the residue of his estate, after the payment of numerous bequests, was given for the creation and endow ment of a free public library, to be called the john crerar library, and to be located in the city of Chicago. The Library was incorporated under the laws of Illinois, October 12, 1894, and was duly organized January 12, 1895. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.