The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself a little. It hasn’t happened over any of the numerous brazen abuses of the ...

There were plenty of libraries where Frank Murray could have worked but only the one in Evergreen Park could bring his career full circle. As the new director of Evergreen Park Public Library, Murray, ...

Local historian Jerry Turnquist has been readying the presentation he’ll be giving Friday night to commemorate the 150th year of the Elgin library — a library that bears the name of a man who never ...

This week in books, let’s talk about branding. I don’t mean the marketing buzzword, but a literal branding iron used on books, as if libraries were maintained like herds of cattle. Let me explain: A ...