John Crerar Library Traditional Cache
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Opened April 1st, 1987, the John Crerar Library is regarded as one of the best libraries in America for science, medicine, and technology.
Born in New York, Crerar, along with Morris Jesup, founded a railroad supply firm in the mid-19th century. In 1852, the Michigan Southern Railroad and Michigan Central Railroad came to Chicago, thus Crerar and Jesup decided to move their firm to Chicago to follow the booming industry.
Upon his death in 1889, Crerar granted a $2 million gift to the City of Chicago to found a library. Originally, the library was located downtown, but as it reached its capacity in the 1950s, the directors sought to contract with a university for a new location. In 1962, the library was moved to Illinois Institute of Technology, but still remained privately operated.
It was only until the 1970s that the library once again ran out of space and in 1981, the library contracted with University of Chicago to merge with its existing collection and move to its present-day location.
The library has visiting hours from 9a-5p, Monday to Saturday, so feel free to head in and explore a bit, and maybe even watch some UChicago science students panic as they study for exams in a giant mess, if you're into that sort of thing. The library also has (restricted access) underground tunnels that lead to Cummings Life Science Center, Gordon Center for Integrative Science (runs right below your feet!), and the UChicago Medical Center.
You're looking for a small container that fits one small trackable (one provided for the FTF!), but BYOP.
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