A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered requests like these are part of a record number of requests to remove books from the shelves of\u2026
A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered requests like these are part of a record number of requests to remove books from the shelves of schools and public libraries in the Chicago area.About 65 miles northwest of Chicago, the town of Genoa, Illinois, has all the hallmarks of the bucolic Midwest. You wouldn’t know it from the quiet of the cornfields or the creeks here, but the local school board president has been making noise.
His correspondence continued, writing: “There are some books which are simply so inflammatory or frankly pornographic as to cross the line as to what should be allowed in a school library … pornography is not allowed in schools by any standard.” We wanted to ask Krueger about his requests and what authority he had as board president to have district staff remove the books. After making repeated requests for an interview, Krueger declined and sent a statement to NBC 5 Investigates. We told him we planned to attend a recent school board meeting where we attempted to talk to him.
It's not clear what happened to all those books on the list, but two years later, NBC 5 Investigates found Krueger is still making additional requests to remove certain materials. NBC 5 Investigates found a total of 464 separate challenges to books or other materials in schools and public libraries in the Chicago area over the past decade. Most of those challenges – more than 300 – have come in the last three years.
The data shows the Genoa-Kingston district appears to be an outlier in some ways. In nearly ever other of the 464 local cases we found, book challenges have come from parents or organizations, such as groups of parents asking administrators in the Palatine area to “reconsider” 10 books that were in district libraries. But according to district documents, the parents didn’t have children in the district and the district opted to keep all the books on the shelves.
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