Family Reading Night Bookmarks (2025)

The Illinois Secretary of State's Library Services division has awarded a contract to Grace Enterprises, Inc. for the printing of Family Reading Night bookmarks. The contract, identified as Open Market Small Purchase 26-350SOS-LIBRA-P-85923, has a total value of $9,604.54 and covers the period from contract award on September 3, 2025, through December 31, 2025. The primary deliverable is the production of bookmarks with specific technical requirements, including a 2.75"x8.5" finished size, full CMYK color printing at 2400 DPI resolution, and printed on 10-point cover stock coated on both sides.

The contract requires the bookmarks to be packaged in bundles of 50 units and is part of a literacy promotion initiative sponsored by multiple Illinois state agencies, including the Illinois State Library, Illinois Center for the Book, and Illinois Library Association. The artwork for the bookmarks was created by Vanessa Brantley Newton and is designed to support the Family Reading Night program. The solicitation specifically mandated that printing be performed by a union printing shop, with a total production volume of 519,450 bookmarks to be delivered no later than October 15, 2025.