Lynn Stainbrook spent decades leading library systems in the Midwest
ROCKFORD — Rockford Public Library Executive Director Lynn Stainbrook will retire this summer after decades of work leading public library systems here and around the Midwest.
Stainbrook has been at the helm of the Rockford Public Library since November 2014. She was hired as the library was preparing to exit its main branch to make way for ComEd to tackle environmental cleanup at the site, which had a history as a gas plant.
The long process to tear down the former main branch, conduct an environmental cleanup and build a 66,000-square-foot, three-story library on the riverfront at 215 N. Wyman St. was completed a year ago…