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Saturday, April 27
The unauthorized removal of copies of the Chicago Reader from the Cook Memorial Library in suburban Libertyville because of an "obscene" word in the paper's headline sparks a debate between First Amendment rights and "community standards." Read the article from the Pioneer Press.