Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias announced Tuesday that $680,522 in grants has been awarded to 36 public libraries — including several in the Local 6 region.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the Addison Public Library asking how to file a court document, Sara ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ new secretary of state and Democrats in the General Assembly are pushing back against a rise in challenges to books shelved in libraries. Secretary of State Alexi ...

Librarians statewide are preparing to meet an influx of book challenges if a nationwide censorship trend comes to Illinois. “We’ve not seen as many widespread orchestrated challenges or campaigns in ...

(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 ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WSIL) -- More than $28 million in library and literacy grants were recently awarded to library facilities across the state. Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi ...

Volunteer attorneys in the First Circuit aim to help self represented litigants through the Lawyer in the Library program. The program is held at local libraries across the Southern Illinois ...

The Marion Carnegie Library will host a community book sale later this month, offering residents a chance to stock up on ...