CHICAGO (CBS) — After recent threats against libraries and their workers in Illinois and around the country, state lawmakers are putting in protections to ensure the spaces stay safe. Secretary of ...

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project . Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the ...

An Illinois bill that outlaws the banning of books in public libraries in the state was signed into law by Gov JB. Pritzker on June 12, 2023. The new Illinois law will go into effect on Jan. 1 2024, ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law on Monday which eliminates book bans, requiring public libraries in the state to ensure they offer a diverse range of materials.

(WAND) - Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias has awarded more than $1.3 million to 2,484 Illinois public school libraries. The grants are awarded in the spring of every fiscal ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WSIL) -- More than $28 million in library and literacy grants were recently awarded to library facilities across the state. Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi ...

One for the books: The Illinois Library Association’s 1998 Librarian of the Year would rather talk about his library’s staff and board than himself. That helps explain why the entire management staff ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book and Manuscript Library—which occupies a vault within the main library—closed February 25 to address a mold outbreak. No more than 5% of the 300 ...

When Julie Milavec thinks back on the past 12 months, her sigh gets long and heavy, almost comically so. Not that there was anything funny about being director of the Downers Grove Public Library this ...

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