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A donation from the United Kingdom spurred the establishment of the Chicago Public Library, a free public library system, a contrast to the private, fee-for-membership libraries common before the fire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chi…
A donation from the United Kingdom spurred the establishment of the Chicago Public Library, a free public library system, a contrast to the private, fee-for-membership libraries common before the fire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chi…
In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A.H. Burgess, with the aid of Thomas Hughes, drew up what would be called the "English Book Donation," which proposed that England should provide a free library to the burnt-out city. 
Hughes was involved also in the formation of some early trade unions, and helped finance the printing of Liberal publications; and acted as the first President of the Co-operative Congress in 1869, serving on the Co-operative Central Board.[9] He invested with William Romaine
Callender in co-operative mills, in 1866.[The Co-operative Congress is the national conference of the UK Co-operative Movement. The first of the modern congresses took place in 1869 following a series of meetings called the "Owenite Congress" in the 1830s
In 1824, he travelled to America and invested most of his fortune in an experimental socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana, as a preliminary model for Owen's Utopian society. It lasted about two years; other Owenite Utopian communities likewise failed.
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