(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- An old favorite returns to a north suburban shopping Wednesday morning.
The Barnes & Noble bookstore at Old Orchard in Skokie closed last year so that the site could be redeveloped.
The book store had been open for 27 years and amassed a devoted following. In a statement, the chain’s top official says the location had been the busiest of all Barnes & Noble stores but the building it occupied was outdated.
Now, Barnes & Noble is reopening in a new 20,000-square-foot shop at a different location in the mall. It is set to open at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
“The closing of the old Barnes & Noble last year almost broke our email inbox as customers wrote to express their dismay,” Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said in a statement. “It is especially pleasing, therefore, to reopen in Old Orchard. We do so with a truly stunning store. I think the book lovers of Chicago will be surprised and delighted at quite how beautiful it is possible to make a new bookstore.”
Chicago-based stationery company Paper Source will have a shop on the first floor.
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