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Illinois Threatens to Defund Libraries Banning LGBT Content After Becoming First State to Outlaw Book Bans

Illinois public libraries that respond to requests from their communities to ban books will be stripped of state funding under a new law signed Monday by Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. "Book bans are about censorship; marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes ban books, not democracies," Pritzker said, according...

Illinois public libraries that respond to requests from their communities to ban books will be stripped of state funding under a new law signed Monday by Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. “Book bans are about censorship; marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes ban books, not democracies,” Pritzker said, according…

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