Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Downers Grove officials have tabled a controversial proposal to change the leadership structure for the village’s politically ...

A west suburban library that became a battleground for national culture wars is on the defensive again. Two years after the Downers Grove library was forced to cancel a planned drag queen bingo over ...

Calling it the “capstone of a career well spent,” Downers Grove Public Library Director Julie Milavec recently was named the Illinois Library Association Librarian of the Year. Milavec first became ...

The pages from an assortment of donated romance novels carefully woven into a full-size dress are one of 30 permanent art pieces on display throughout the Downers Grove Public Library. Acquired by the ...

Downers Grove officials have tabled a controversial proposal to change the leadership structure for the village’s politically embattled library. A nonbinding referendum asking whether to replace the ...

Elsewhere in Illinois, disagreement over picture books about human anatomy and drag queens brought police to shut down a Lincolnwood Library meeting in late 2022 while a slew of candidates ran for ...