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This is the big one! 🫨

#BookSky #ReaderSky #Bookstores

Here in our neighborhood, Hyde Park, folks are beaming after a lovely weekend for #UChicago Convocation and the 57th Street Art Fair.

School may be out, but your trusty local booksellers are here all summer.

Let us help you build up that summer #tbr pile. Sun-Tues, 10am-5pm; Weds-Sat, 11am-7pm.

Thanks for the visit, @audreyniffenegger.bsky.social! Great having you, @eddiecampbell.bsky.social, and @kgerleve.bsky.social.

We were honored to welcome these amazing book artists and book arts advocates at our warehouse. #BookSky

Don’t think he’s ever been here before?

Oh, ye of little faith…

To native South Sider, erstwhile Hyde Park theology student, and now first US-born pope Leo XIV, we send heartfelt hometown congratulations.

#BookSky #ReaderSky #Books

Look, Ma! We made it into the neighborhood paper’s weekly photo roundup.

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Chicago’s Comic Book Stores Banding Together For Citywide Shop Crawl Saturday Neighborhood shops plan to take this year’s Free Comic Book Day festivities to a new level, starting with a pre-party Friday.

Hey, that's us! We made the news!
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Get in on our time-honored First-of-the-Month sale.

Save 20% when you shop in-store with your Powell’s Books Chicago tote bag or t-shirt.

That’s the deal, on the first day of each month.

We’re closing the books on our most epic Independent Bookstore Day yet.

Thanks for showing up big on Saturday and making the commitment to #shopsmall in support of indies.

Long live #independentbookstores!

#BookSky #ReaderSky #Books
#SupportIndependentBookstores #BookstoreLife #BookstoreLove

Pilsen Community Books in Chicago is the best radical bookstore I know.

Powell's Books in Hyde Park introduced me to so many great books back when I was in grad school. Still one of my favorite stops in Chicago.

Favorites for #IndependentBookstoreDay from Chicago: @powellsbookschi.bsky.social takes me back to grad school, and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social has become a must-visit every time we're in town.

Reminder! Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day and we expect all of you in here for the city-wide book crawl (see link in bio for more info)! Don’t miss the New Stuff Saturdays Livestream on IG at 11:30am CT so you know what new things to look for! instagram.com/quimbysbookstore/

Picture of the 10% and 15% discount cards participants can earn for reaching milestones on the 2025 Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl

Crawl your way to 10 stores, and get 10% off at all participating stores for an entire year!

Make it to 15 stores, and make that 15% off!

Here are the discount cards you can earn this Saturday, April 26.

Photo of 2025 Chicagoland Bookstore crawl passport

Come and get ’em! Here is this year’s IBD passport. Pick one up at our store (or any of our 50+ peer indies) and get started on your bookstore crawl.

Quick reminder that Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26!

If you’re in the area, put us on your itinerary for the Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl.

We have special early hours: 9am-7pm.

#tbt IBD of yesteryear 🎥

Independent Bookstore Day happens this year on Saturday, April 26.

Join the great Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl, and come have some bookish fun with us!

#BookSky #ReaderSky #ChiLoveBooks #TeamIndie #Bookstores #BookstoreLove #SupportIndependentBookstores #BookstoreLife

CHI♥BOOKS It was my first time attending, and I had so much fun and felt so involved in the community. I'll definitely be attending again next year. -Almudena R.  We had a great time, and we were able to...

Here’s the 311 on Chicago’s Independent Bookstore Day.

🗓️ Saturday, April 26, 2025

#Booksky #BookstoreLove #BookstoreLife #Books #SupportIndependentBookstores #Bookstores #ReaderSky #ChiLoveBooks #TeamIndie

www.chilovebooks.com

Get me to God’s country.

IYKYK.

#Booksky #Readersky #BookstoreLove #BookstoreLife #SupportIndependentBookstores #Bookstores #Books #Bookselling

Come visit us!

📍1501 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

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Can’t wait for the crawl!

We had a lovely visit from Thomas Meaney of @grantamag.bsky.social.

He was in the neighborhood for the University of Chicago’s Literary Arts Lab.

Thanks for stopping by, Thomas! See you again next time you’re in Chicago.

Chicagoans: Have you heard of Independent Bookstore Day?

It’s coming up on 4/26.

Visit 10 bookstores, get 10% off for a whole year.

Visit 15 bookstores, get 15% off.

Full details at chilovebooks.com.

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