Chicago Tool Library

🏕️It’s time to get OUTSIDE outside and CTL has so much camping gear you can borrow!🎣

Our team has been working hard to get the gear ready for you, so head to our website and reserve all the gear you need for your summer trip!

Mark your calendar now for our next Repair Fair on 5/30! 🛠️🪛🔬🧵🚲🔌💡

Repair Fairs are free community events where you can bring your broken and beloved bikes, clothes, appliances, and more and our skilled repair volunteers will fix them.

Depending on volunteer availability, we can generally attempt repairs related to:
- small appliances
- clothing and fabric
- costume jewelry
- small electronics
- tool and blade sharpening
- bikes
- so much more!

We can’t fix:
- gas tools
- broken screens
- fine jewelry
- sewing machines
- items that need to be welded

***Due to increasing event popularity, we now have a limit of 2 items per person and 1 knife sharpening per person of sharpening is available!***

**Obviously we cannot guarantee any repairs and cannot guarantee an item won’t be damaged during repair in rare cases, especially with so many household items being made of easily-breakable plastic.**

If you are interested in volunteering at this event as a repair helper please visit chicagotoollibrary.org/volunteer to learn more and sign up.

🏕️Spring is here and it’s time to plan some outdoor adventures. We’ve been revamping our camping gear program all winter and it’s ready for yooooouuuuu!!!!!

Thanks to a lot of community input and a generous grant from ‘s grant we added over 100 brand new items to our gear collection, did a ton of research, and reworked our policies.

Check out our website to learn about our new borrowing guidelines and get your gear reserved for your next adventure! https://www.chicagotoollibrary.org/camping