The Chicago Publishers Gallery houses twenty-three hundred volumes of Windy City print. If Willy Wonka had lived in Chicago and dealt in books instead of… ...

City News has books, too—music biographies, science, popular history, and plenty of Chicago-centric fare, often at discount prices. And yes, adult magazines still exist, it turns out.

Still, the demise of The Chicago Defender’s print editions represented a painful passage for many people who grew up in Chicago and for those with memories of its influence far beyond this city.