Illinois will become the first state to require library systems to adopt policies against book bans if they are to receive state funding, a measure Democrats portrayed as a pushback against conservative states where the culture war has come for controversial titles.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed the legislation Monday at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago alongside Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias (D), who carried the bill through the legislature.
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