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Arts & Culture, Books and Comics Issue May 29, 2019
A writer surveys the transformation of Chicago’s literary landscape

“Does anyone ever enter a bookstore just to purchase a book?”
- By Max Grinnell
- Tags: Books and Comics Issue, Bookstore history, literary landscape, Standees, O’Gara & Wilson, Rizzoli Bookstore, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Kroch’s and Brentano’s, Stuart Brent Books, Stuart Brent, The Savvy Traveller, Prairie Avenue Bookstore, Dial Bookshop, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library, Women & Children First, Volumes Bookcafe, Rafael Torch, The Garcia Boy

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 8/8: Comic Con, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, and the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 8
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Comic Con, Andrew McCarthy, Weekend at Bernie's, Chicago Comic Con, Grant Park, Columbus and Jackson, Iceland, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, Borders, the Chicago River, the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby, Special Olympics Illinois

News & Politics, Chicago Reader at Forty Jul 7, 2011
1996

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Chicago Reader at Forty, Chicago Reader at 40, Chicago Air & Water Show, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown Books, Lewis Lazare, 1990s

Blogs, Bleader Feb 16, 2011
Borders Local Store Hit List

Borders closing Chicago-area stores
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Borders, Publishers Weekly, bankruptcy, bookstores, Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Sour cherry cocktails, popcorn beer, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Adam Seger, sour cherries, Nacional 27, Caipirinha, Manhattan, Barry Callebaut, Chocolate Academy, frozen desserts, Amanda Snouffer, Rock Bottom Brewery, POP! Popcorn Malt Liquor, Davin Bartosh, POP! Fest, Goose Island, Metropolitan Brewing, Belmont Arts and Music Festival, BAM!, burgers, Roscoe Village Burger Fest, The Bad Apple, The Village Tap, Goose Island Brewpub, Gin Blossoms, 10, 000 Maniacs, Stone Brewing Co., The Publican, beer dinner, Rogers Park, Glenwood Sunday Market, Market for All Fundraiser, Morseland, Northalsted, Halsted Tastes Better, Ann Sather, HB Home Bistro, Chicago Diner, Waitperson's Race, Rick Tramonto, Steak with Friends, Borders

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2010
5/14-5/17 — Free Croatian Days Events

Chicago's Croatian-American community celebrates Croatian-American Days from 5/14-5/17 with several free events.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Music, Free Shit, Other Stuff, Performing Arts, Arts, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Books, Croatia, Croatian-American Days, Daley Plaza, food, pastries, art, folk-dancing, music, Club Stepinac, Sacred Heart Kolo Group, Croatian Vines, Srdjan Bulat, classical guitar, University of Chicago, International House, Croatians in Chicagoland, book release, book signing, Maria Dugandzic-Pasic, Borders, Chicago Cultural Center, Preston Bradley Hall, gala, Pleter Awards

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 5/4

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Visual Art, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Laura Marling, Lincoln Hall, Simply It, Leaves, Whistler, the Whistler, Cocina Boricua, Awesome Color, Empty Bottle, Andrzej Grill, Shelby Lynne, Martyrs', Cho Sun Ok Restaurant, Cho Sun Ok, The Square, Vines on Clark, Dave Eggers, Luis Alberto Urrea, Gorton Center for the Arts, Bank Lane Bistro, Alex Ross, Borders, Silver Spoon, Vintage Magic Uncorked, In Fine Spirits, Big Jones

Music, Soundboard Apr 22, 2010
The List: April 22-28, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows
- By Peter Margasak, Liz Armstrong, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Monica Kendrick, and Ann Sterzinger
- Tags: Soundboard, Mark Shippy, Pat Samson, U.S. Maple, Miracle Condition, Matt Carson, Quenchers Saloon, Xinobi, Moullinex, Bruno Cardoso, Luis Clara Gomez, Phantogram, Susana Baca, Chabuca Granda, Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, Mike Reed, Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things, Berlin, Lincoln Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Hideout, Ceu, Green Dolphin, Symphony Center, Drop the Lime, Smart Bar, Empty Bottle, Styrenes, Anat Cohen, Chicago Octet, Jozef Van Wissem, Heaven Gallery, Jonsi, Sigur Ros, Fifty Nine Productions, Reflection Eternal, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, House of Blues, Thomas Function, Empty Bottle, Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, Borders, the Vic, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Green Dolphin Street, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Mar 4, 2010
Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Lit

Bookstores, lecture series, and more
- By Noah Berlatsky and Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Feature, Backstory Cafe, Blackstone Library, Solomon S. Beman, Borders, 57th Street Books, Seminary Co-op, First Aid Comics, Frontline Books and Crafts & Crystal Power, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, O'Gara & Wilson, Powell's Books, Hyde Park Powell's, Series A, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago Bookstore, Hyde Park bookstores, Chicago bookstores, Chicago used bookstores, Blackstone branch library

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2009
12/17 — Free Shipping Day

Free shipping from more than 700 merchants on orders placed Thu 12/17.
- By Robyn Chang
- Tags: RE Gift, Free Shit, Swag, free shipping day, last-minute shopping, Apple Store, Borders, CB2, FAO Schwarz, Guitar Center, Lush, Levi's, Macy's, Toys R Us

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2008
Janis Ian around town

Janis Ian plays the Old Town School on Friday and visits the Borders in Oak Brook on Saturday.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Chicago, Old Town School Of Folk Music, Borders, Janis Ian, Oak Brook, book signing

Blogs, Bleader Nov 26, 2007
Bourdain at Borders

Bourdain book signing Wednesday at Borders
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations, Borders, nerdfury

News & Politics, Feature Jul 15, 1993
Everybody's Watching Chicago's Book Wars

With more chains and independents competing here than ever before, booksellers around the nation are wondering who will survive.
- By Mel Miles
- Tags: Feature, Steven Morvay, Chuck Robinson, American Booksellers Association, bookstores, Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, Waterstone's, Borders, Coopersmith's, Kroch's and Brentano's, independent bookstores, chain bookstores, Guild Books, Kroch's and Brentano's, Crown Books, Dan Mayer, Carl Kroch, history, B. Dalton, William Rickman

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A writer surveys the transformation of Chicago’s literary landscape

“Does anyone ever enter a bookstore just to purchase a book?”

Reader's Agenda Thu 8/8: Comic Con, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, and the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 8

1996

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader

Borders Local Store Hit List

Borders closing Chicago-area stores

This Week's Food and Drink Events

Sour cherry cocktails, popcorn beer, and more.

5/14-5/17 — Free Croatian Days Events

Chicago's Croatian-American community celebrates Croatian-American Days from 5/14-5/17 with several free events.

Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 5/4

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

The List: April 22-28, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows

Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Lit

Bookstores, lecture series, and more

12/17 — Free Shipping Day

Free shipping from more than 700 merchants on orders placed Thu 12/17.

Janis Ian around town

Janis Ian plays the Old Town School on Friday and visits the Borders in Oak Brook on Saturday.

Bourdain at Borders

Bourdain book signing Wednesday at Borders

Everybody's Watching Chicago's Book Wars

With more chains and independents competing here than ever before, booksellers around the nation are wondering who will survive.

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“Does anyone ever enter a bookstore just to purchase a book?”

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 8

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader

Borders closing Chicago-area stores

Sour cherry cocktails, popcorn beer, and more.

Chicago's Croatian-American community celebrates Croatian-American Days from 5/14-5/17 with several free events.

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows

Bookstores, lecture series, and more

Free shipping from more than 700 merchants on orders placed Thu 12/17.

Janis Ian plays the Old Town School on Friday and visits the Borders in Oak Brook on Saturday.

Bourdain book signing Wednesday at Borders

With more chains and independents competing here than ever before, booksellers around the nation are wondering who will survive.

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