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English professor James Plath has studied and written extensively about novelist John Updike. He will explore the author's connection to Mark Twain during a retreat at Twain's summer home in upstate New York.
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Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure that will withhold state funds from libraries that ban books. The move sparked a lot of questions.
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Citing a “vitriolic strain of white nationalism,” Gov. JB Pritzker signed the measure withholding state grant money from libraries if they ban books.
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A bill that would block libraries from receiving state grants if they ban books cleared the Illinois Senate Wednesday and will soon be sent to Gov. JB Pritzker, who is expected to sign it.
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Representatives were racing to beat a Friday deadline to get bills out of the chamber, with about 2 months left in the spring legislative session.
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The Illinois House passed a bill Wednesday that would prohibit libraries from banning books or other material because of partisan or doctrinal pressure, prompting strong opposition from Republicans who called it an assault on local control.
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An Illinois political scientist and former Chicago alderman tapped into his 50 years of experience for his latest book examining the challenges Americans face in making the U.S. a multiracial and multiethnic democracy.
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The West Bloomington Revitalization Project Book Bike just got a little easier to pedal. The bike has given out thousands of books to kids and others who want them, and after 11 years of a 250-pound one-gear bike, there's a new lighter bike that has multiple gears.
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And now for something really challenging, yet deceptively simple. It's in a new book, "Introduction to Ecological Psychology, a Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting and Cognizing," by Jeffrey Wagman of Illinois State University and Julia Blau of Central Connecticut State University.
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Charles Bell is the author of a new book that explores the disproportionate effects of suspensions on Black students.