Subterranean Books On Brink of Closing

 in the Loop is on the brink of going out of business.

In a posting on the bookstore's Facebook page, owner Kelly von Plonski wrote "We have 5 months to turn our sales around or else we're out of business Sept 1."

Von Plonksi said the store asked for a rent reduction and got turned down.  She said she's looking into throwing a fund-raiser "to get us out of our imminent bind." But she added, "we still need long-term solutions. We can't handle the slide we've recently seen."

The store has created a survey "to figure out what's right, what's wrong," said von Plonski. 

Subterranean Books opened in October 2000.