Column: Despite hype, new law not exactly ban on banning books – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "During the 'last fiscal year,' the state awarded 1,631 grants totaling $62 million, according to the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. That averages $38,000 per grant. Roughly 97 percent of them went to public and school libraries. That’s not chump change. But the state grants are minimal share of budgets for libraries that are overwhelmingly funded by property taxes."