CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Two of Chicago’s largest tool-lending libraries are planning to merge and that means one of them is going to need more space.
Chicago Community Tools (CCT) will be wrapping up its work in the fall and donating all its tools to the Chicago Tool Library which was founded in August 2019.
CCT has donated to organizations such as non-profits, schools, and churches, that need larger equipment while Chicago Tool Library donates to individuals. Now, Chicago Tool Library’s Tessa Vierk said her group carries on both missions with more than 8,000 tools in all.
“They’ve got shovels and generators and so they’ve got a lot of really big items whereas some of our items are like knitting needles, for example. We have a lot of small things. Wrenches,” Vierk said.
Vierk said Chicago Tool Library is now in the hunt for larger quarters to more than triple in size to about 4,000 square feet. It’s currently located at 1048 W. 37th Street in Bridgeport and wants to remain on the South Side and be transit-accessible to Chicagoans.
She said she first ran into tool libraries in northern California and thought when she returned to the Midwest that, “Chicago is totally the kind of city for this.”
You can borrow items from Chicago Tool Library by going to chicagotoollibrary.org.
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