Rachel Madorsky at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest.

Rachel Madorsky participate in the book signing at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest.

The Printers Row Lit Fest was founded in 1985 by the Near South Planning Board to attract visitors to the Printers Row neighborhood. By 2002, it had grown to five city blocks (on Dearborn, from Congress to Polk), attracting more than 200 booksellers from across the country displaying new, used and antiquarian books and featuring more than 200 authors participating in panels, discussions and a variety of other programs.