Read & Run Chicago is hosting five different guided running crawls between some of Chicago’s most beloved bookstores for Independent Bookstore Day 2025!

Our ultimate list of independently-owned bookstores in Chicago.

These three Black-owned Chicago bookstores celebrate writing by people of color and provide inclusive spaces for all readers.

Cynthia Okechukwu, Betsy Tomszak, and Allison Yates round up the best book clubs, bookstores, events, landmarks, and more for Chicago book lovers.

Join Read & Run Chicago’s team for ¡Viva! Los Libros’s Read-a-Thon for Immigrant Justice running April 12-May 10.

Donate books at every MOVE + BOOK SWAP meetup in April to support the L.Y.D. Foundation’s two new community libraries.

Book recommendations for Women’s History Month.

While at Read & Run Chicago we celebrate women’s stories today and everyday, here are a few places related to our programming to tangibly support women, non-binary, and trans people in Chicago this International Women’s Day.

Read & Run Chicago volunteer Leslie Hiquiana rounds up some of the best Filipino restaurants and cafes in Chicago—and which Mia P. Manansala mystery to read while your’e there.

Watch a recording of a live Q&A with Clark and Division author Naomi Hirahara that Read & Run Chicago hosted in April 2023.

Read poet Stephanie Sarabia’s original poem, “A Love Letter to Lake Michigan,” originally performed at a February 2024 Read & Run Chicago event.

To understand more the real-life parallels between Makkai’s novel and 1980s Lakeview, Read & Run Chicago hosted three LGBTQ elders after our Book Club Run of The Great Believers in January 2025 in partnership with Gerber/Hart Library & Archives, the largest LGBTQ archives in the Midwest and a resource for Rebecca Makkai.

From Chicago Public Library’s crown jewel to dive bars, here are the Chicago bookish community’s list of coziest places to read in Chicago this winter.

There are countless books set in Chicago that teach us the food, history, and culture of the city we love. Here’s our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide for the Chicagoans in your life.

Do you remember your quinceañera? We asked this question to readers & runners at our October 2024 Book Club Run of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a three-mile loop around Cicero, Illinois, inspired by Erika L. Sánchez’s award-winning young adult novel. Here’s what three runners have to say.

Here’s every book that inspired a 2024 Read & Run Chicago event.

Guide Kaylee Tock rounded up some best practices for deciding where to spend your advocacy dollars.

Meet the real-life activists that shaped the fictional story in Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers.

Three self-guided routes inspired by Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming.

In June 2024, we hosted a virtual Q&A with NYT Bestselling Author Ann Napolitano. Here’s what we learned about her.