A Little Village teacher's back-porch library

Apr. 25, 2013
Rachel Perveiler said La Biblioteca Del Personas promotes literacy and teaches responsibility.

Bookmobiles, bibliomulas and library budget cuts

Apr. 26, 2012
WBEZ’s Front and Center project will launch a series about literacy in late May. We are curating news coverage of literacy issues in the Great Lakes region as we lead up to the series.

Amid proposed budget cuts, poet celebrates libraries

Nov. 5, 2011
Among the belt-tightening measures Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed to ease Chicago’s budget woes were $11 million worth of cuts to city libraries. The proposed cuts included reduced hours for all library branches and over 350 staff layoffs.His plan has not been well received.

Altgeld library back in business

Apr. 8, 2011
A library opening in any community is cause for excitement.

Chinatown closer to new field house, library

Jan. 21, 2011
Chinatown residents are inching closer to winning some city resources that they’ve lobbied for during the last several years. Chicago’s City Council allocated funding in September for a new field house to replace one that was torn down nearly 50 years ago.