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As a result, Newberry staff shaped the institution around the needs of the city.</p> <p>To complement the Chicago Public Library, which had been established in 1872, the trustees decided to found a non-circulating reference library that would be free and open to the public.</p> <p>Before the Newberry opened in 1887, it had no collection to offer visitors. Walter Newberry’s own book collection, which might have served as a foundation for the library, had been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. And so the Newberry’s first librarians grew the library’s collection from the ground up.</p> <p>Today, the Newberry collection extends across 27.5 miles of shelving in the library stacks. 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