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Women & Children First opens in its first location on Armitage Avenue in the DePaul Neighborhood of Chicago (Borelli).
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W&CF moves to a new, larger location at 1967 N. Halstead St.
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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).
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Chain stores like Borders and Barnes & Noble begin to open in Chicago (Chamberlin).
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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).
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Women & Children First is one of the bookstore plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the ABA.
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Two more Borders stores open within miles of Women & Children first. Sales drop 12% at W&CF (Chamberlin).
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Women & Children First created a fund to support their events when they could not longer be sustained by the operating budget of the store.
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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).
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An LGBTQ staff member begins Sapho's Salon as a forum for discussing issues relevant to the lesbian community (Chamberlin).
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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?).
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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).
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Bubon and Christophersen put the store up for sale as they plan to retire.
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Ownership of Women & Children first changes hands from Bubon and Christophersen to Lynn Mooney and Sarah Hollenbeck.
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Women & Children First re-opens after renovation.
