Section 16-11-23
Libraries and special schools established and maintained.
The city board of education shall have the right to establish and maintain, or aid in establishing and maintaining, public libraries, either separately or in connection with the public schools, and also special schools for backward, defective, truant or incorrigible children, day or night schools for adult illiterates and for the Americanization of foreigners and part-time continuation classes.
(School Code 1927, §215; Code 1940, T. 52, §173.)