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Women & Children First Opens
Women & Children First opens in its first location on Armitage Avenue in the DePaul Neighborhood of Chicago (Borelli). -
Women & Children First Moves to Halsted Street
W&CF moves to a new, larger location at 1967 N. Halstead St. -
Store Moves to Its Current Location
Women & Children First moves to the Andersonville neighborhood after being recruited by the Edgewater Community Development Organization. W&CF moved into a building that had once been a grocery store (Chamberlin). -
Borders and Barnes & Noble Open
Chain stores like Borders and Barnes & Noble begin to open in Chicago (Chamberlin). -
Store Expands
Women & Children First expands into the vacant area left when a women's arts-and-crafts store closes. The craft store had opened around the same time as W&CF (Chamberlin). -
Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc.
Women & Children First is one of the bookstore plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the ABA. -
Christophersen Announced as President of the ABA
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More Borders Open
Two more Borders stores open within miles of Women & Children first. Sales drop 12% at W&CF (Chamberlin). -
Women's Voices Fund Created
Women & Children First created a fund to support their events when they could not longer be sustained by the operating budget of the store. -
Financial Troubles
Ann Christopherson, one of the founders of the store, begins to work at a bookstore computer software company when she can no longer afford to pay herself a salary for working at the store (Frangello). -
Sapho's Salon
An LGBTQ staff member begins Sapho's Salon as a forum for discussing issues relevant to the lesbian community (Chamberlin). -
30th Anniversary Benefit Event
Benefit event raises money for the Women's Voices Fund (Frangello). Around this time Christophersen is able to return to work at the bookstore (What's killing feminist bookstores?). -
Ebook Sales
Women & Children First begins to sell Google ebooks. The first year, ebooks account for less than 1% of sales (What's killing feminist book stores). -
Women & Children First for Sale
Bubon and Christophersen put the store up for sale as they plan to retire. -
Change in Ownership
Ownership of Women & Children first changes hands from Bubon and Christophersen to Lynn Mooney and Sarah Hollenbeck. -
Street Named After Women & Children First
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Post-Renovation Open House
Women & Children First re-opens after renovation.
