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Illinois outlaws book bans in public libraries
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 14, 2023 08:38am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Isabel Yip and Nicole Chavez |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 13, 2023 08:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Illinois became the first state in the nation to prohibit book bans Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced, as states across the country continue to challenge and axe literature from public schools and libraries.
Pritzker signed a bill into law on Monday to prohibit libraries from banning books, saying it’s the only one of its kind in the country.
“Book bans are about censorship, marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes banned books, not democracies,” Pritzker, a Democrat, said at a bill signing ceremony at a Chicago library. “We refuse to let a vitriolic strain of White nationalism coursing through our country determine whose histories are told, not in Illinois.” |
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