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Longtime Chicago Heights Library President Moves On
After half a century of service, Chicago Heights Library Board President Robert Booth stepped down.
Chicago Heights Public Library lost a big piece of its history last November when 94-year-old Robert Booth stepped down from board president after over 50 years of service, Sun-Times Media reports.
Booth has lived in Chicago Heights since he was four years old and was appointed to the library board back in 1960—when the library was located near the police department by the rail tracks.
“The old collection would bounce up and down when the trains would go by,” Booth told the Sun-Times.
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In addition to his long tenure on the Heights library board, Booth is also an Air Force veteran and a former international lawyer. Even among a busy intercontinental flight routine, Booth seldom missed a board meeting.
Booth is currently a Member of the Rotary Club of Chicago Heights and the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago Heights.
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