Here’s how to access the digital resources for free, from educational materials to popular fiction books.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Almost $1.25 million is going to public libraries and public-school libraries across Central ...

Illinois officials have announced more than $27 million in grants to strengthen library services statewide, with several ...

State officials announced more than $27 million in library funding, including grants for infrastructure, school resources and ...

UPDATE: On Thursday, Naperville’s DuPage Children’s Museum was notified that its grant for $84,000 in institute funding to support the travel of a bilingual exhibit to Illinois public libraries was ...

The Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire will use a $75,150 state grant to help keep up with the cost of e-books and other digital resources, officials said. The funding is from the ...

BALANCING BOOKS: Before the Trump administration started taking a red pen to Medicaid, SNAP and other key programs in the GOP mega-bill, it issued an executive order pulling the plug on the Institute ...

Peggy Frank loves old research books, especially ones about history. But they aren’t always available through her local library collection in Naperville, where she’s lived for the past 45 years. But ...

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 ...

When Julie Milavec thinks back on the past 12 months, her sigh gets long and heavy, almost comically so. Not that there was anything funny about being director of the Downers Grove Public Library this ...

Here’s what to know about the new digital library services available to all Illinois residents. Seen here in a file photo is the library at East St. Louis Junior High on Feb. 22, 2024. Joshua Carter ...