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Q: Ex-Chicago bookseller Harold Rubin recently died. What was he famous for?
A: He once owned Weird Harold’s, a pioneering adult bookstore on South Wabash Avenue. Rubin was a self-styled 1st Amendment crusader but the city considered him a pornographer and succeeded in shutting him down in 1975. He died in Galena at age 67.
