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Illinois enacted the nation's first state law to restrict the ability of local libraries to enact book bans. The law withholds state funding from any library that bans books for "partisan or doctrinal" reasons. It makes mandatory the Library Bill of Rights published by the American Library Association.
Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of the top ten largest producers of teachers in the US according to the ...
It's Banned Books Week, an annual effort by the American Library Association to raise awareness about censorship.. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged books filed by ...
[17] [6] [18] Targeted texts may be held by a business such as a bookstore; a library, either a public library or one located in a school or university; or the school or university as a whole. [19] The entity requesting censorship may be an organization, private individual, or government official. [19]
Leah Johnson founded a “banned bookstore” called Loudmouth Books in Indianapolis last year. She said she was inspired to launch her bookstore after a library in Indiana moved more than 1,300 ...
The state’s Attorney General’s office later walked back its investigation, but for Johnson, an author who primarily writes about people of color and the LGBTQ experience, the damage had been done.
It’s also the most banned book in the state of Florida. Some parents have complained that the book is too sexually graphic in nature, akin to pornography, a charge McCormick refutes.
Barat College (1858–2005), in Lake Forest, became a part of DePaul University in 2001. Barat campus closed in 2005. Brown's Business College (1876–1994), numerous locations around Illinois; Coyne College (1899–2022, Chicago) Dixon College (1881–c. 1915, Dixon) Evanston College for Ladies (1871–1873), merged with Northwestern ...