Open Books on Northwest Side provides books, literacy programs across Chicago
If you're looking to unload some books, Chicago's only non-profit bookstore has a new location in Logan Square that's gladly accepting donations.
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If you're looking to unload some books, Chicago's only non-profit bookstore has a new location in Logan Square that's gladly accepting donations.
Readers of all ages - including adults and children - are invited to stop by the Douglass Branch Chicago Library near Homan and 13th Street to get a free book.
It's free to attend and takes place Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
About 3,000 kids count on one nonprofit in the northern suburbs for new books every year.
About 300,000 kids count on one nonprofit in the northern suburbs for new books every year. But thousands of books are going to waste because they were ruined after a big storm on Tuesday night. CBS 2's Noel Brennan had the story from Lake Bluff.
Chicago is inviting residents to join the city's largest book club. On Wednesday, the Chicago Public Library announced its latest pick for the One Book, One Chicago program.
The UN Chief has declared that the world has left the era of "global warming" and now is in "global boiling" Rolling Stone Journalist and author of "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet" joined the stream to discuss why July has been the hottest month in recorded human history. In his book, Goodell examines why temperatures are rising so fast and if there is anything to be done to reverse the damage of anthropogenic climate change. "The Heat Will Kill You First" is available right now online and in stores.
"It literally goes against freedom of speech. It's dangerous and we have to step up for our libraries and librarians."
In the fall, student athletes across Chicago collected books and delivered them to the school, because it didn't have a library. So the teens created 24 mini libraries for classrooms there.
Bookman's Corner, at the corner of Clark and Wellington in Lakeview, served readers with an appetite for books for years.
Danielle Moore is quite literally living the dream as owner and founder of Semicolon Bookstore and Gallery, the only black woman-owned bookstore in the city.
Since 2018, Young, Black & Lit has given out more than 58,000 across the country, and this year plans to distribute 25,000 more.
"The notes that people are putting on their orders are so sweet and lovely. If I could hug every one of them, I would."
Christy Martin shares her story of survival in a new book after her life nearly came to an end at the hands of her ex-husband.
