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The '''Read/Write Library''' is "a repository of pamphlets, [[zine]]s, community plans, [[oral histories]], neighborhood newspapers, literary magazines from [[Chicago Public Schools|CPS]] schools and state prisons, parish-church and settlement-house cookbooks, self-published poetry and novels, and other [[ephemera]] that, taken together, tells the story of Chicago by Chicagoans in their own words, not filtered through the perspectives of academics or journalists."<ref name="reader20170111">{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/read-write-library-nell-taylor-neighborhoods/Content?oid=25001117 |title=We need the Read/Write Library now more than ever |last=Levitt |first=Aimee |date=January 11, 2017 |website= |publisher=Chicago Reader |access-date=March 5, 2017 |quote=}}</ref><br />
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The library was founded by Nell Taylor in 2006 as the Chicago Underground Library.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/us/an-unusual-library-finds-a-new-home.html |title=An Unusual Library Finds a New Home |last=Velez |first=Juan-Pablo |date=November 12, 2011|work=The New York Times |access-date=March 5, 2017 |quote=}}</ref> The library started out in the now-defunct MoJoe's coffee shop, a Roscoe Village hangout and hub for zine-related activity in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/books/read-write-library-1|title=Read/Write Library|work=Time Out Chicago|access-date=2017-03-24|language=en}}</ref><br />
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It moved to [[Humboldt Park, Chicago|Humboldt Park]] in 2011.<ref name="reader20170111" /><br />
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*{{official website|http://readwritelibrary.org/}}<br />
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[[Category:2006 establishments in Illinois]]<br />
[[Category:Volunteer cooperatives]]<br />
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