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General Press
"Women & Children First Named Inaugural Great Lakes Bookstore of the Year" - Publishers Weekly, 2024
"Chicago's Women & Children First is one of the longest standing Feminist Bookstores in America" - WBEZ, 2024
"Women & Children First Bookstore 'Stronger than Ever' as it celebrates 40 Years in Business" - Block Club Chicago, 2019
"This Bookstore is Still on the Cutting Edge of Feminism, 40 Years Later" - Them, 2019
"Bookstores Stoke Trump Resistance with Action, Not Just Words" - The New York Times, 2017
"Inside Indie Bookstores: Women & Children First in Chicago " - Poets & Writers, 2010
"The Key to Staying Open Is Staying Niche." - Forbes
"One Way For An Indie Bookstore To Last? Put Women 'First'" - NPR
"Women & Children First Way Street Dedication" - Windy City Times
Celebrating New Ownership
"Andersonville's Women & Children First Bookstore has New, but Familiar Owners" - Chicago Tribune
"Literati of the Moment: Sarah Hollenbeck and Lynn Mooney, New Owners of Women & Children First" - Newcity
"Ownership Changes at Chicago’s Women & Children First Bookstore" - Chicago Sun Times
"Two Store Employees Buy Women & Children First" - Publishers Weekly
Resistance to Amazon
"What it Means for independent Bookstores when Amazon Moves into Town" - WGN
"Chicago's Indie Booksellers Blast Plans For New Amazon Store" - Here & Now
"Chicago Indies Decry Amazon Books" - Shelf Awareness
"Local Booksellers Brace Themselves for the Opening of the Amazon Store"- Chicago Reader
Feminist & Independent Bookstores
"The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada" - Paste Magazine
"The feminist bookstores that inspired Portlandia" - Melville House
"The 28 Coolest Independent Bookstores in the U.S." - Matador