Plainfield Public Library District
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#Education_in_Will_County,_Illinois
Plainfield Library The Plainfield Public Library District serves residents and businesses of the village of Plainfield, Illinois and surrounding area.
The library district's current population is in excess of 60,000 residents.
The library is located at 15025 S. Illinois Street, Plainfield, IL 60544 near crossings of Lincoln Highway and U.S. Route 66 The street numbering convention was recently changed.
The library's address under the old system was 705 N. Illinois St.
July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007 Registered Cardholders 24,651 Annual Circulation 506,249 Total Holdings 100,000 In 1925, Ebanezer & Celeste Nimmons left a $25,
000 estate to either the Village of Plainfield or to Plainfield Township for the establishment of a tax supported public library.
On June 9, 1925 the residents of the Village of Plainfield held a special election to vote on the establishment of a tax supported public library.
The Nimmons Village of Plainfield Free Public Library, commonly referred to as the Village Library, creating a tax supported endowed Library.
The first elected Board of Directors was: Stephen Wylie, Clinton Hartong, Robert Wolfe, Clyde Wolf, Grace Jones-Smith, and Eugenia Hadlock.
The Village Library opened its doors to the public in April 1926, with 784 books.
Mrs. Hadlock, who had resigned from the Board of Directors, became the first Librarian.
For 16 years Nimmons Village of Plainfield Free Public Library was located in a small frame building on a lot on the south side of Lockport Street and consisted of a room approximately 25 x 30 feet divided into a children's corner,
a non-fiction corner, and a fiction corner, with study tables in another section.
Bookcases lined the walls.
In 1940, the Library Board purchased a 50' x 132' lot from the Plainfield Congregational Church at 70...