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Chicago booked for reading revival
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19901111
Author:Lori Rotenberk
When the City of Big Shoulders was a Big Band kind of town, books were also the rage. In 1943 paperback books were new on the scene, and wartime consumers bought them up at newsstands and drugstores.
Chicago was the second-largest book-buying market in the country, slightly behind New York, according to Publisher's Weekly, the bible of the book industry.
In recent years, however, the nation's third-largest city, home to Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and Nelson Algren, has ranked fifth among major cities in book sales per household. We trail Boston, ...
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