This unique business with the most delightful staff opened in our community in 1989. Allison, who has always lived in our community was hired at Bookies that same year. In 2006, Allison took ownership of the bookstore and employs 8 to 10 people from our community.
Bookies is a household name in many of our homes. It is our Beverly GO TO Bookstore any time of the day or night. Bookies provides story time for our children, books for all our local schools, suggests and provides sets of books for special education teachers and is an official Chicago Public School vendor. Bookies hosts many meet and greets for local authors, networks with many other local businesses and sends books overseas to our soldiers in Afghanistan. In fact, the night before the crash Bookies was hosting a fundraising event for the Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities.
No matter what book, tape or educational game we are looking for they will find it and ring up our sale with a big smile! Another business in the 19th Ward that we ask and they deliver to our homes, our schools and all the way to Afghanistan.
Please keep your eyes wide open when passing Bookies at 2419 West 103rd Street. Please stop in with your family or a friend, make a purchase and rebuild their loss of revenue. Mention Giving Back with a 'Bookies' smile!
Again, we are asked to live in the Spirit of Giving Back. Recently we rallied for Town Liquor and Foxes Pub. Foxes Pub sent over a pizza while the Bookies Staff was beaming up the store yesterday. Giving Back is our way of saying thanks and we appreciate our neighborhood businesses. We are called again to rally and stand beside Bookies that has supported our families and community for the past 23 years!
It is sharing experiences and Giving Back that awaken the best in our human spirit!
Hope to see you at Bookies Paperbacks and More!
Kathleen Walsh Mulcahy
I agree completely. I have traded in books there and have bought plenty. It is an interesting place to go and unlike some of the other book stores I have been to, it is not filled with snobby types who think that because they have a book in their hands, they are smarter than you. The employes are all neighborhood people and they are always very friendly - and helpful. If you need that novel for English you forgot to buy - you can almost always pop in to Bookies and they will have it for you. I think it is time to buy some paper backs.
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DeleteGreat bookstore and for those that aren't into reading, there is always a chance you can meet husband number 5 around the corner in one of the local pubs. You don't even have to be very proficient at reading there and who really cares if the guy is already married. Right K? Ahhhh...some of the women of Beverly, it is where we live. As I finish my book, this true story is one of my favorite Mount Greenwood/Beverly tales. Hopefully, I can sell it at Bookies and organize a signing.
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DeleteSince we're insulting people here, it's clear the blogger above wouldn't know a damn thing about book stores (two words). Poor writers equal low readers.
My God, people can't even provide positive commentary on a wonderful local business without the attack dogs coming out.
I agree. There are always those who use every oppty to put down our Ward! I love the 19th Ward and have lived in Beverly most of my life! I would guess that I have probably been told 2,000 times in my life that "Beverly's going, isnt it?". Almost always by someone who does not live there and never did. I always tell them that if a neighborhood was "going" as they call it - it does not take 40 years for that to happen. Great post. Great idea.
DeleteLet's support the local businesses! Even if it costs a little more to buy locally - when you factor in the time it takes to travel farther, and the gas too, it is usually no more expensive. And you are investing in our neighborhood.
When you have a reputation as a marriage wrecker and you are sleeping with your first deceased husband's boss who really cares if the next guy is married right "k" !
DeleteYou got more passing thru than ships on the Panama Canal !
Tried the mailman yet?
Bookies is truely one of our many treasures in our beloved neighborhood. I support it every chance I get.
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ReplyDeleteThank You for removing a remark that was totally inappropriate , some people work their whole life building a fake reputation for them selfs. Then when someone puts the true factually correct information about them on front street they get offended . It is what it is , sorry we are all not going to live in LA LA LAND with you .
DeleteAbsolutely. I will be making at least 2 purchases this week.
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glad to see that the store hung in there, i recall that the owner was hurting yrs back when Borders on 95th opened, but hes still here and Borders is gone,,
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