Davenport public library looking for help to build Eastern Avenue branch
WQAD
Davenport’s newest library is closer to reality, but time is running out and the city needs your help. Vision Iowa will pay more than one …
Referendum: 2nd library for Plainfield?
Plainfield Sun
Voters in the Plainfield Public Library District will soon choose whether to sign off on a $30 million construction …
Money sought to make Winfeld’s library accessible
Chicago Daily Herald
Winfield Public Library officials say the facility at 0S291 Winfield Road simply doesn’t meet Americans With Disability Act requirements. …
Library Foundation receives Kemmerer Foundation grant
Little Chicago Review
We are pleased to announce that the Lincoln County Library Foundation recently received a $5000 grant from the Kemmerer Foundation Fund of …
Rock Island Library adjusts fees for new fiscal year
Quad-Cities Online
Overdue fines at the Rock Island Public Library will change to 20 cents per day as of the start of the library”s new fiscal year on Wednesday – the first …
Naperville seeks volunteers to count library users
Chicago Daily Herald
Naperville Public Library leaders want to know how many people are using their facilities – whether the patrons are 2 or …
Former librarian cuts the (Internet) cord
Grayslake Review
He was also one of the first library bosses in the Chicago area to provide free public Internet access. Now he’s the first person he knows to have pulled …
Lincoln Library & Museum Now Houses Expensive Crystal Vase
WGIL Radio News
A crystal vase is being added to the inventory at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and the artist choked up during the unveiling …
Museum to renovate space to create hands-on area for kids
The State Journal-Register
A $150000 grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services … State Museum’s Play Museum plans, visit www.museum.state.il.us/ismsites/main/.
Board extends Cook Park Library lease for 99 years
Waukegan News Sun
Cook Park Public Library has been operating without a lease on someone else’s property for the past 25 …
Village gets inside look at plans for new library
Bolingbrook Sun
If the new library building in Bolingbrook ultimately is as impressive as the plans for the new facility, residents will be …
Library panel tabs Peoria architects
Galesburg Register-Mail
The Galesburg Public Library’s Building Committee on Thursday chose a Peoria architectural firm it will recommend to the full board next …
Pekin library gets $24,864 grant: Money from state’s Live and Learn program
Peoria Journal Star
Secretary of State Jesse White awarded Pekin Public Library nearly $25000 Thursday as part of the Live and Learn Construction Grants. …
State grant to make for ‘even nicer’ new Mahomet library
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette
Officials at the Mahomet Public Library said a state grant announced on Thursday will help make their new building more than a …