{"id":58508,"date":"2019-11-13T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58508"},"modified":"2019-11-13T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:04:27","slug":"as-chicago-ditches-overdue-library-fees-book-returns-surge-by-240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/11\/13\/as-chicago-ditches-overdue-library-fees-book-returns-surge-by-240\/","title":{"rendered":"As Chicago ditches overdue library fees, book returns surge by 240%!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to encourage and promote literacy among low-income communities, The Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, approved a policy to eliminate library late fees, making Chicago the first city in the country to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the policy went into full effect across the city\u2019s 81 neighborhood and regional libraries on October 1st,\u00a0the book returns have soared by a whopping 240%! Librarians say the policy has been instrumental in welcoming more patrons back to their locations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Associated Press, Library Commissioner Andrea Telli emphasized the policy\u2019s success to her fellow City Council members during a budgetary meeting last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust by word of mouth and also on the library\u2019s social media pages like Facebook, we saw a lot of patrons say, \u2018Oh my God. This is so great. I\u2019m gonna bring back my books. I\u2019ve been hesitant to come back to the library because I owe these fines,\u2019\u201d Telli said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/chicago-first-to-ditch-overdue-library-fees\/ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/chicago-first-to-ditch-overdue-library-fees\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/chicago-first-to-ditch-overdue-library-fees\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to encourage and promote literacy among low-income communities, The Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, approved a policy to eliminate library late fees, making Chicago the first city in the country to do so. Since the policy went into full effect across the city\u2019s 81 neighborhood and regional libraries on October 1st,\u00a0the book returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}