Local author and guest Read & Run Chicago guide Kara Eng shares her favorite spots in Chinatown.

Ready to celebrate Pride Month? Use movement and stories to honor the LGBTQ community—and explore Chicago along the way!

Watch a recording of a live Q&A with Toya Wolfe, author of Last Summer on State Street.

Chicago book club leads share their favorite places to read outside this summer.

Watch a recording of a virtual Q&A with Claire Lombardo in May 2023.

Watch a recording of a live post-run panel discussion with two Japanese-American historians and activists Alice Murata and Mary Doi that Read & Run Chicago hosted at Slant of Light Books in February 2025.

Calling all creative readers & runners: we’re looking for a fresh design for Summer 2025 and want YOU to submit your designs!

Our Summer 2025 Chicago book picks and why we loved them.

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.