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Chicago library to digitize massive collection of African American history, literature
CBS News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThanks to $2 million from the Mellon Foundation to the Chicago Public Library, nearly 300,000 pieces...
Suburban Chicago library cancels drag bingo event ‘due to threats’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA public library in suburban Chicago was forced to cancel a drag bingo event scheduled to coincide...
Chicago Public Library making Museum Passport program more digital
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoUpdating its long-running Museum Passport program for the digital world, the Chicago Public Library...
The room where Obama watched the Bin Laden raid was stripped out of the White House will not be...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhite House photographer Pete Souza's iconic photo of President Barack Obama and top officials...
KWC provost selected for prestigious fellowship
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 25—James Cousins, provost for Kentucky Wesleyan College, has been selected for the 2023 Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship by the University of Chicago Library, and he will use that ...
How a national book-banning trend erupted at a suburban Chicago library, with pushback aimed at...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt all started with one parent’s complaint about a book in the children’s section of the Lincolnwood, Illinois, library this summer. The mother, there with her twins, objected to the shelf display ...
Suburban man charged for shooting two boys at a Chicago library: Police
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA Brookfield man has been charged in the Tuesday shooting of two boys, ages 12 and 16, outside a library in West Garfield Park. Police charged Adam Avizius, 37, with one felony count of aggravated ...
Illinois becomes the first state to ban book bans—here’s what that means
Motherly via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAs states across the U.S. continue to remove books and literature from public schools and libraries,...
Illinois becomes first state to pass law curtailing book bans
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIllinois has become the first state to legislate against the banning of books in public libraries, a...
New Illinois law will penalize libraries that ban books
The Week via Yahoo News· 11 months agobooks on display for banned book week Chicago Tribune / Contributor / Getty Images Illinois Gov....
