Astrida Orle Tantillo, president of Chicago’s Newberry Library, is seen in her office on Feb. 22, 2024. She is the tenth president of the library and joined the institution in December 2023.

Ayer 1485, a Nahuatl-language manuscript, sits in the conservation lab at Newberry Library on the Near North Side on Dec. 11, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) ...

Where it makes sense, some of those materials will also migrate to the Newberry, McStraw said. At the library, the Chicago Dance History files join an existing dance archives collection that began ...

The library, which opened in 1885, is named after wealthy 1800s Chicago civic leader, Walter L. Newberry, an avid reader and book collector, who bequeathed half of his estate to found this home ...

The landmarked Newberry Library building in Chicago’s Gold Coast is moving forward with an ambitious plan to renovate 26,000 square feet of public space on the granite-clad, Romanesque structure ...

He will surely visit the Newberry Library’s newest exhibition, a small but engaging presentation, “Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism,” which opens Thursday in the Hanson ...

Newberry Library spotlights 'invisible labor' of Chicago immigrants The Newberry wanted to launch an exhibition on the contributions to the printing industry made by Chicago’s diverse communities.

The Newberry Library invites people to leave comments after visiting its "Civil War to Civil Rights: African-American Chicago" exhibit. I sat down with Newberry staff—digital initiatives ...

How a trove of rare books was found on a Chicago sidewalk — and reunited with its owner It took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to unravel ...

"We were really excited to find these," said Martha Briggs, curator of modern manuscripts at the Newberry. "Because slave letters are very rare." They are letters from a slave named Washington ...

The Newberry Library was showing its age. Now, after big renovation, it's showing off what's new, including visitor-aimed changes, World's Fair show.