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Amanda Kloots joins “Chicago Today” to discuss her new children’s book “Tell Me Your Dreams” and being honest and open about her life as a mom.

Amanda Gorman spoke out Tuesday after access to the poem she recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration was restricted at a school in Miami-Dade.

The WNBA All-Star says she will share details about the “unfathomable period” in her life, when she was arrested in Russia last year on drug-related charges.

Author and University of Chicago professor Eve Ewing joins “Chicago Today” to discuss co-writing “Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game” with Kaepernick himself and working on “Marvel’s Black Panther” comics

A familiar storefront is heading back to Westfield Old Orchard in Skokie: Barnes & Noble.

Matthew Perry shared how much he spent trying to get sober amid his addiction battle, which resulted in multiple visits to rehab facilities and stomach surgeries.

Kelly Ripa has gotten vulnerable in her new book “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories,” in which she unveiled details about her relationship with former co-host Regis Philbin.

A new book describes complaints by then-President Donald Trump about American military leaders, and his aversion to having injured soldiers in a parade.

The fireproof book is a joint project that includes author Margaret Atwood, who in a video demonstrated its effectiveness. Here’s how and why the book was made.

Every year, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracks and records the most banned and challenged books in the U.S. Here’s the top 10 most banned books for 2021.

Brandon Sanderson asked folks on Kickstarter for $1 million to self-publish four novels he wrote during the pandemic. They funded him in 35 minutes.

Book banning is far from a new phenomenon, but incidents have been on the rise across the country the past two years. As Nora Pelizzari of the National Coalition Against Censorship points out, “Everybody is guilty at some point of trying to control the information that other people have access to.”

In a 4-3 vote, the Wentzville School board voted to pull Toni Morrison’s first book, “The Bluest Eye” from every district school’s library.

“Maus” is a decades old book about Holocaust survivors. Its ban by a Tennessee school board has sparked renewed interest in it.

The auction of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s library ended the same day that Justice Stephen Breyer confirmed he will retire this year.

Up to now, her most famous words are likely “alternative facts”

‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman spoke to CNBC after a school board in Tennessee voted to ban his landmark graphic novel about the Nazis’ persecution of Jews.

The highest bid so far: $18,000, for a signed copy of “My Life on the Road,” the memoir of leading feminist activist Gloria Steinem.

Grassroots organizations across the country battle prison restrictions and pandemic struggles to send books to incarcerated people.