The Burnham Plan Centennial - Bold Plans, Big Dreams

Program Partners

GLENCOE PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Glencoe Public Library seeks to enrich the lives of Glencoe residents by providing the library services and materials needed to meet their informational and recreational interests; to act as a responsive resource for independent, lifelong learning; to support the principles of intellectual freedom; and to encourage use of the library by patrons of all ages as a vital center of community life.

As part of the Burnham Plan Centennial, the Glencoe Public Library is one of 67 venues hosting Make Big Plans: Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis. For more information on this exhibits and the public programs associated with it throughout the region, click here.


Partner Category: Public Agency

Centennial Activities

Monday, April 6, 2009 7:00pm

City Beautiful: Celebrating the Burnham Plan Centennial

Glencoe Public Library

Art historian Jeff Mishur presents a slide lecture on the full scope of Daniel Burnham's 1909 plan for Chicago and its environs. [MORE]

Glencoe Public Library

Open to the public:
Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm; Friday 9am-5:30 pm; Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday 1:00-5:00 pm

Website: www.glencoepubliclibrary.org

Address:
Glencoe Public Library
320 Park Avenue
Glencoe, IL 60022
847/835-5056
[Get Directions]

Contact: Grace Hayek, ghayek@glencoepubliclibrary.org

The Burnham Plan Centennial
© Copyright 2009

c/o Chicago Metropolis 2020
30 West Monroe Street, 18th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60603 • (312)332-2020

Site developed and hosted by
The University of Chicago Library