Sydney's Mom please check with them to see if they allow you to get a library card because you work in the city. It's like that in Ontario, Canada and is my understanding it's like that with other locations as well. I don't know them all obviously though & perhaps Chicago is different.
It's worth checking out. Our libraries ask that you bring in a paystub showing your work address or a business card with the work address on it then you're good to go. If you work in the city then you are contributing to that city through payroll taxes.
I just looked at the site & it doesn't seem like they offer cards for people that work in the city. Interesting! But they do offer use of the CPL if you have a card from a reciprocal library. Maybe you could look into that.
http://www.chipublib.org/howto/library_card.php
Here's the link to the list of reciprocal libraries and maybe yours is on there. +++ fingers crossed for you.
http://www.chipublib.org/aboutcpl/cp...ocalborrow.php