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City Life, Public Service Announcement Aug 28, 2020
Mapping out a reader's delight

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, livestream, Experimental Sound Studio, Independent Bookstore Day, bookstores, books, maps, bicycles, riding, Motoblot, scooter, motorcycle, Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Quimby's, Bridgeview, art exhibitions, artists, 6018North

Arts & Culture, Books Issue Jul 24, 2020
The Chicago Independent Bookstore Map
- By Salem Collo-Julin and Amber Huff
- Tags: Books Issue, books, bookstores, Chicago Independent Bookstore Map, COVID-19 relief fundraisers, independent bookstores

Arts & Culture, Books Issue Jul 21, 2020
The Dial’s next chapter

How one couple channeled their love for books and each other into running a business
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Books Issue, The Dial Bookshop, Heidi Zheng, Peter Hopkins, Mary Gibbons, Aaron Lippelt, bookstores, COVID, Lolita, Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong, Kim’s Convenience, Ins Choi, Fermented Vegetables, Christopher, Kirsten Shockey

News & Politics, Feature Apr 27, 2018
Peek inside these local bookstores—then visit in person on Indie Bookstore Day

Saturday is the perfect time to scour the shelves of Chicago's bevy of local book nooks.
- By Jamie Ramsay
- Tags: Feature, Books, bookstores, indie book store day, chicago, chicagogram, read, literature

Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2018
Readers and writers rally to rescue Volumes Bookcafe

The owners of the Wicker Park bookstore asked their friends to help them stay open.
- By Madeline Happold
- Tags: Arts, Books, Money, Neighborhoods, Volumes Bookcafe, Kimberly George, Rebecca George, bookstores, Wicker Park, fundraising, Rebecca Makkai, Kathleen Rooney, Eve Ewing

Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2017
Dial Bookshop opens for business in the Fine Arts Building

The owners of Pilsen Community Books now have a second store downtown.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, Dial Bookstore, Pilsen Community Books, Fine Arts Building, Aaron Lippelt, Mary Gibbons, Kelsey Westenberg, bookstores

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2017
Video
What to know about Amazon Books, now open on Southport

The online retailer ventures into the real world.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Money, News, Arts, Amazon Books, bookstores, independent bookstores, Chicagoland Independent Bookstore Alliance, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2016
Not even our bookstores are safe from Silicon Valley's growing might

Amazon's brick-and-mortar store in Wrigleyville is just the latest example of tech's "Frightful Five" remaking our world.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Technology, The Contrarian, The Internet, News, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, iPhone 7, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Fox News, Megyn Kelly, McChicken, bookstores

Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2016
Local booksellers brace themselves for the opening of the Amazon Store

Amazon's not really selling books, it's selling a whole new way of shopping.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Arts, Books, Money, News, bookstores, Amazon Store, Women & Children First, Sarah Hollenbeck, Lynn Mooney, Rob Salkowitz

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jan 19, 2016
Fans say thank you for the music as Shake Rattle & Read prepares to close

As the beloved used book and record store shuts its doors, its customers seem more devastated than its jovial longtime owner.
- By Micah Uetricht
- Tags: Lit Feature, Shake Rattle & Read, bookstores, used bookstores, Ric Addy, Pogo Ponies

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2015
Read It and Eat, a cooking-centric bookstore, to open in Lincoln Park

A new bookstore combines two of the most wonderful and essential things in the world: food and books.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Food & Drink, Read It and Eat, Esther Dairiam, bookstores, Librairie Gourmande

Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2014
Women & Children First and Sem Co-op are under new management

Big changes are ahead for two of the city's most venerable bookstores.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Neighborhoods, Women & Children First, Seminary Co-op, 57th Street Books, Sarah Hollenbeck, Lynn Mooney, Jeff Deutsch, bookstores, bookselling, local businesses

Best of Chicago, Goods & Services Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Indie Bookstore in a Chain-Filled Neighborhood

After-Words New and Used Books
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Goods & Services, Best of Chicago 2014, bookstores, After-Words, River North, independent bookstores, organization, Critics' Picks

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Oct 2, 2013
Culture Vultures: Illustrator Matthew LaFleur recommends the webcomic Space-Mullet

Plus: Chicago Urban Art Society founders on contemporary art mags and Supernatural Chicago's Neil Tobin on Lisa Alvarado's Still, Life
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Matthew LaFleur, Space-Mullet, webcomics, websites, Supernatural Chicago, Neil Tobin, Lisa Alvarado, Chicago Urban Art Society, Lauren Pacheco, Peter Kepha, Kolaj magazin, Elephant magazine, bookstores, magazines, Kroch's and Brentano's, contemporary art, writing, performance, first-person narratives, illustrators, Daniel Warren Johnson, science fiction

Best of Chicago, Goods & Services Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Bookstore in Which to Trap Your Claustrophobic Friends

Bookman's Corner
- By Shannon Nico Shreibak
- Tags: Goods & Services, Best of Chicago 2013, bookstores, books, Bookman's Corner, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2012
Slideshow
One last look at the old Seminary Co-op Bookstore

After 51 years, the Seminary Co-op moved out of the labyrinthine basement that made it famous. Grab a ball of twine and take one last look.
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Books, Closing, We're Old, Arts, books, bookstores, University of Chicago, Jack Cella, Slideshow

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 12, 2012
One to watch this fall: Seminary Co-op Bookstore has outlived the superstore assault

Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Lit Feature, fall arts, bookstores, academica, Spencer Turbine Company, Jack Cella, University of Chicago, Jasmine Kwong, Megan Doherty, Saul Bellow, Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2012
War stories that are easier to swallow

While the nation wonders what led to the slaying of 19 Afghans, action-packed war memoirs are flying off the shelves.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Media, Politics, News, Robert Bates, war stories, war memoirs, bookstores, American Sniper, Chris Kyle, New York Times best sellers, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, Afghanistan, Iraq, William Morrow, SEALS

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 Aug 31, 2010
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Goes on Sale

Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, hits the bookstores
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, bookstores

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2007
Category police

Guerrilla reshelving: a tactic without a strategy.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Bookstores, Taxonomy, Science and Its Mimics

Arts & Culture, Book Review May 31, 2007
One Man's Niche is Another Man's Treasure

The improbable success of Chicago Review Press, Inc
- By Scott Eden
- Tags: Book Review, publishing, book publishing, Chicago Review Press, Inc., Chicago Review Press, Curt Matthews, Linda Matthews, Kroch's and Brentano's, bookstores, Independent Publishers Group, David White, Perseus Books Group, book distribution, Publishers Group West, National Book Network, Mark Suchomel, Cynthia Sherry, Glenn Yeffeth, BenBella

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2007
Are the independents making a comeback?

Good news for independent bookstores and pharmacies -- but are the chains on the run?
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Bookstores, chain stores, Pharmacies, Independent Businesses

Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2006
Chains vs. Locals, round 17

What chain stores are good for.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Bookstores, Atlantic, BALLE, Local First Chicago, Virginia Postrel, chain stores

Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2006
I can't believe it's news

Gallows humor in the bookstore, Iraq, and other good addresses.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Humor, Parking, Dating, Cell Phones, Alibis, Travel, Bookstores

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