UPDATE: On Thursday, Naperville’s DuPage Children’s Museum was notified that its grant for $84,000 in institute funding to support the travel of a bilingual exhibit to Illinois public ...

JB Pritzker on Monday signed legislation that would cut off state funding for any Illinois library that tries to ban books, CBS Chicago reports. The new law comes as predominantly Republican-led ...

A bill proposed by an Elgin high school student that will put supplies of opioid antagonists like Narcan in Illinois ...

A room on the first floor of the Illinois State Library will now be named after former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. Illinois ...

The new Illinois law will go into effect on Jan. 1 2024, and any libraries that don't follow the law will be ineligible for state funding. Attempts to censor library books reached a 20-year-high ...

said at a bill signing ceremony at a Chicago library. “We refuse to let a vitriolic strain of White nationalism coursing through our country determine whose histories are told, not in Illinois.” ...

But they aren’t always available through her local library collection in Naperville, where she’s lived for the past 45 years. But in Frank’s community — and hundreds like it in Illinois ...

Nothing more, nothing less. Unfortunately, there are well-organized forces, several outside the library district’s borders, that have been successful in changing the narrative to one of an anti ...

Illinois organizations — including the Illinois Library Association, Illinois Association of Museums, and Museums in the Park — also support preserving the institute. They say its elimination ...