{"id":4017,"date":"2026-10-08T15:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:12:06","slug":"nara-event-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"NARA Event Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing this from a colleague: For over 50 years, the Chicago regional NARA facility on South Pulaski has welcomed&nbsp;researchers from around the Great Lakes Region to&nbsp;explore their own history. Now it&nbsp;is being&nbsp;closed to reduce federal real estate costs. Local records are being packed up to ship to less accessible facilities. Local staff, with years of institutional knowledge, face uncertainty and loss. <em>Chicago needs to know just what it is about to lose.<\/em>Next week, October 12th through 16th, volunteers will staff a lunchtime &#8220;reference desk&#8221; in Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago, near the Calder flamingo, from 11am to 1pm CT daily. Supporters are welcome any day of the week to hold signs and provide information.&nbsp; If you can only make one day in the week,&nbsp; shoot for Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: North side of Dirksen Federal plaza, near the intersection of Dearborn and Adams (look for the flagpoles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bring: signs in support of NARA Chicago and archives more generally,&nbsp; folding chairs, appropriate weather gear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing this from a colleague: For over 50 years, the Chicago regional NARA facility on South Pulaski has welcomed&nbsp;researchers from around the Great Lakes Region to&nbsp;explore their own history. Now it&nbsp;is being&nbsp;closed to reduce federal real estate costs. Local records are being packed up to ship to less accessible facilities. Local staff, with years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=4017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NARA Event Next Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[187,346],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-musings","tag-chicago","tag-nara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}