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The Illinois State Library is currently housed in the purpose-built library rededicated as the Gwendolyn Brooks State Library in 2003. [8] The library which was designed by Chicago architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White. [6] Construction took five years to complete and cost just under 36 million dollars when it was complete in ...
The Reaching Across Illinois Library System is a regional library system consisting of approximately 1,250 public, academic, special, and school library members, representing more than 4,000 library facilities in Northern, West-central Illinois. The regional library system was created in 2011 when the Alliance Library System, DuPage Library ...
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The Warren-Newport Public Library is located in Gurnee, Illinois. The library serves 60,000 people within a 55-square-mile (140 km 2) area that covers all or most of Warren Township and Newport Township, Illinois. The library is a member of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS).
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed into law a bill that he says will make Illinois the first state in the nation to outlaw book bans. Illinois public libraries that restrict or ban ...
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The Vernon Area Public Library offers access to nearly 200,000 physical items, [1] along with programming and instruction for all ages. The library also delivers materials to senior centers in the area. [3] The Vernon Area Public Library was counted among America's Star Libraries for 2010, [4] 2011, [5] and 2013 [6] as named by Library Journal.
The construction of a library in Des Plaines was first proposed in 1896, but was defeated by a vote of 142 to 50. In 1904, a subscription library called the Tabard Inn was established in F.C. Walton's drugstore on Ellinwood Street in Des Plaines, Illinois, with F.C. Walton himself paying for most of the service, and in April 1905, another proposition to establish a Free Public Library finally ...