This Hyde Park landmark is a great place to buy based on the employee selections and to check out some more intellectual fare. Many readings here fall into the academic/nonfiction category, though the shop often features authors who have written about local history.
Hyde Park is coming up in the world. Not only do some of the best new Chicago restaurants reside in this leafy South Side neighborhood, but its shopping game is also getting better. With a vintage clothing shop worth the trip from any part of the city, one of the city's top bookstores and a comic book store whose owner diagnoses your comic book needs like a doctor, Hyde Park's stellar shops won't be a secret for long.
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