Blackstone Branch Library

CTL-E-1224 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Chicago's first purpose-built library branch, presented to the city by philanthropist Isabel Norton Blackstone near public schools; operates a distributed, neighborhood-network service model rather than building-bound service.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from INST-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-INST-001:INST-013; source research type(s): library. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S-codes S08 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes S09 (see working/track-b/sources.md)
S-codes (see working/track-b/sources.md)

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