Link to December 2 Chicago Tribune article, "State pays rest of overdue funds to library system".
Excerpt: The payments rescued, at least temporarily, the systems' delivery service, which many patrons have come to rely on when they can't find something at their hometown library. The Illinois Library Systems deliver more than 30 million items annually, officials said. But the service has not gotten payments for the current fiscal year, which began July 1 and amount to about $15 million.
Su Bochenski, executive director at the Metropolitan Library System, which serves parts of Cook, DuPage and Will counties, said she remained concerned that the statewide system will be in jeopardy again next summer if the state does not catch up on payments for the current fiscal year.
"We still have questions about our funding stream," Bochenski said. "Is it going to stabilize or are we constantly in a position of running to the brink of closing?"
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