Why Are Chicago S Public Libraries Closed February 12

• Brian Jackson/Sun-Times
• Planning on going here tomorrow? Too bad, it’s closed! (But it will open again on Thursday.)

The Chicago Public Library wants the public to know that all of its locations, “including the Harold Washington Library Center, Woodson Regional, and Sulzer Regional Libraries, will be closed on Wednesday, February 12, 2014.”

In this case, Lincoln’s.

CPL employees also have a day off every weekend, unless they work at the Washington, Woodson, or Sulzer libraries, or the Pumping Station outpost. On these frigid Sundays, when suburban libraries are open and packed, all 76 of CPL’s branches—even those in the spiffy new buildings that have gone up lately—are shut tight.