Sunny and Welcoming, Providing Books and a Safe Place

James Warren – “As Chicago’s political past and present were in mutual-admiration overdrive on Thursday, the city’s future was 100 feet away, paying no attention to all the conviviality and diligently using crayons on illustrations of jazz musicians. “I get to read, color and get on the computer,” said Nishon Luke, 7, merrily toiling in the children’s section of the new Richard M. Daley branch library on a desultory stretch of West Humboldt Park along Kedzie Avenue.”