Borders Books filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, and will be closing five stores in the city of Chicago and three more in the suburbs.

Two Chicago area book signings scheduled at Borders Books involving former Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Jr. were canceled after an anonymous threat, a Borders official said today.

Borders’ Chicago flagship on North Michigan Avenue, which is slated to close next year, already has hosted a few private book clubs in its third-floor event space.

Two area Borders bookstores canceled planned book signings by the son of a reputed mobster following a phone threat. The Oak Brook location received a voicemail message froma man warning about ...

Borders Book Stores will close its doors for the final time this month, but Chicago schools will benefit. Hilco Trading LLC, the liquidation company participating in Borders' going-out-of-business ...

The Borders chain has left behind empty stores. But as CBS2's Dorothy Tucker reports, retail experts don't expect them to be vacant very long.

The Library is also offering book discussions around this topic, continuing with Jeff Libman discussing his book, “An Immigrant Class: Oral Histories from Chicago’s Newest Immigrants”.

As Kroch's struggles and Waterstone's languishes, K mart-owned Borders Books & Music is preparing for an assault on Michigan Ave. Pictured is Oak Brook manager Fred Carr.

You can’t expect everyone to love ya when you snitch for the FBI on your mobster dad and then write a book about it. The Chicago Tribune reports that Borders books in the Chicago area canceled two ...

The suburbs and Chicago will be hit hard when Borders starts closing stores in the next few weeks. Borders announced Wednesday it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closing about ...

Once Borders shuts down its 14 remaining Chicago-area stores by the end of September, he says, “I think there will be a huge loss of sales of books that will never be captured by any format.” ...

The Chicago Public Library has developed a Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders collection of books related to the topic of immigration in order to provide additional information and complement the ...