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 ...

(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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — Amid coordinated efforts throughout the nation to ban books from library shelves, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has drafted legislation designed to support public and ...

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 ...

Volunteer attorneys in the First Circuit aim to help self represented litigants through the Lawyer in the Library program.

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.

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 ...

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The Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) Board appointed Monica Harris as RAILS Executive Director, effective immediately. Harris first joined RAILS as Associate Executive Director in ...

Though many Illinois libraries already have supplies of medications that can reverse opioid overdoses, a new state law will ...

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 libraries was ...