{"id":83528,"date":"2025-08-20T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83528\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:09:10","slug":"whats-the-lifespan-of-a-book-at-the-chicago-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83528\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the lifespan of a book at the Chicago Public Library?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: A previous version of this story first published on June 13, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Queen Victoria of Great Britain <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chipublib.org\/cpl-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donated 8,000 books<\/a> that would become the foundation of the Chicago Public Library collection.<\/p>\n<p>While none of those original books are currently in circulation, at least one title from around that time can still be checked out today.<\/p>\n<p>A Curious City listener wanted to know what is the oldest library book still in circulation. Press play to hear the search for the oldest book, and read the story <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/2024\/06\/13\/whats-the-lifespan-of-a-book-at-the-chicago-public-library\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s Note: A previous version of this story first published on June 13, 2024. After the Great Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-83528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}