O’Gara & Wilson, Ltd. Chicago’s Oldest Used Bookstore. O’Gara and Wilson traces its lineage back to 1882, when a Mr. Hewitt founded the original bookshop not far from our current location. Hewitt ran the store until the 1890’s, when it became Woodworth’s, a well-known establishment where generations of professors and students did their book buying. After Woodworth the store changed hands again before it was purchased by Joseph O’Gara. A true bookman, Mr. O’Gara, along with his pipe and his cat, Lady Jane Grey, made the store into what Saul Bellow once called the best bookstore in America.
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