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Municipal Building was dedicated on June 29, 1937. The building housed the library in the west wing, City Hall in the center, and a fire station in the east wing. The library featured 7,000 books and 1,500 feet (460 m) of shelving. The modern equipment included slant-top tables for the
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Friends of the Des Plaines Public Library organization was founded in 1964. Their regular book sales fund many public programs and special library projects. In 2004, the Friends donated a bronze sculpture of young Abraham Lincoln to the library. This sculpture was originally designed by Guido
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and provide additional staff office space. Construction of another addition, this one being 20,700 square feet (1,920 m), completed in 1974 resulting in a near doubling of the size of the library. On June 19, 1969, the first library bookmobile began biweekly service to each of the city's
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Thacker Street and Graceland Avenue. The Colonial Williamsburg-style building was dedicated on November 2, 1958. A small addition to the library was built in 1970 to house the
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