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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a new law Monday that will withhold state funding from libraries that ban books.
After the law goes into effect on January 1, 2024, any libraries that ban or limit content because of partisan pressure will no longer receive state funding.
The law is thought to be the first of its kind in the nation.
It comes as states nationwide institute new bans or restrictions on books and other content in libraries.
The American Library Association says there were a record number of attempts to ban books in 2022.
PEN America, an organization that fights against book bans, says many of those bans targeted content by the LGBTQ+ community and by creators of color.
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