Aurora’s Chambers Plaza Library reopened less than three years ago to great fanfare after a decade-plus closure. But now the modest branch at the edge of a strip mall on East Colfax Avenue will close again — this time for good.

It is one of two branches set to go dark in the city at the end of October as the Aurora Public Library shrinks its presence from seven to five branches in an effort to consolidate services across the city of 400,000 to the locations where they are used most. The other one targeted to close is the Iliff Square Library at South Peoria Street and East Iliff Avenue.

While the twin closures will coincide with an expansion of the Martin Luther King Jr. branch — a few miles down Colfax from the Chambers Plaza Library — it’s cold comfort for those who live in and aroun

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