O'Gara & Wilson Ltd. Antiquarian Booksellers

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O'Gara and Wilson traces its lineage back to 1882, when Mr. Hewitt founded the original bookshop in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Hewitt ran the store until the 1890s, when it became Woodworths, a well-known establishment where generations of University of Chicago professors and students did their book buying. Woodworth's was eventually purchased by long-time Chicago bookseller Joseph OGara, who had served his apprenticeship with Jerry Nedwick. A true bookman, Mr. OGara, along with his pipe and his cat, Lady Jane Grey, and his apprentice Doug Wilson, made the store into what Saul Bellow once called the best bookstore in America.

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