Censorship attempts and book bans have escalated greatly since 2021, according to the American Library Association. The ALA said there were 67 attempts to ban books in Illinois in 2022. Nationwide, there were a reported 1,477 attempts to ban books between 2022 and 2023, including 874 titles.
Most of those books, many young adult fiction and some classics, deal with LGBTQ subjects and racial identity. Those books are similar in topics the Nazis sought to burn beginning in the 1930s.
When he signed it, Pritzker noted: “Regimes ban books, not democracies.” Something we apparently haven’t learned since World War II. Championed by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who doubles as state librarian, the law protects schools and libraries, “against attempts to ban, remove, or otherwise restrict access to books or other materials.” Many of us thought the First Amendment covered that portion of controversial reading lists and free speech.
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