Linda Bubon is co-founder and co-owner of Women & Children First Bookstore.
She and her business partner, Ann Christophersen, opened the bookstore in1979 as a way to contribute to the international feminist movement and to join with and support those in Chicago working to further the rights and well-being of women & children. Women & Children First has been honored with awards from Chicago Now, the ACLU’s Roger Baldwin Foundation, Bailiwick Reportory Theatre, and The Lesbian Community Cancer Project, among others. In 2004, the Chicago Sun-Times named Ann and Linda among the city’s 100 most powerful women.