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The library was founded by Nell Taylor in 2006 as the Chicago Underground Library. The library started out in the now-defunct MoJoe's coffee shop, a Roscoe Village hangout and hub for zine-related activity in Chicago.
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that, taken together, tells the story of Chicago by Chicagoans in their own words, not filtered through the perspectives of academics or journalists."
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schools and state prisons, parish-church and settlement-house cookbooks, self-published poetry and novels, and other
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readwritelibrary.org
zines
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Humboldt Park


"We need the Read/Write Library now more than ever"
"An Unusual Library Finds a New Home"
"Read/Write Library"
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