Chicago Tribune: 25 books

Good Eating's Christmas Recipes is a quick and easy guide for successful and delicious holiday dinners. This collection features the best Christmas Eve and Christmas Day recipes the Chicago Tribune has printed from the traditional to the innovative. Full-color photography captures these dishes in mouthwatering...

Compiled from the vast archives of kitchen-tested recipes that originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this book is a one-stop recipe shop for all your favorite desserts. Ranging from cakes and cookies to pies and cobblers, as well as souffles, mousses, puddings, tarts, and frozen delicacies, Good...

Loyola's astonishing run to the Final Four for the first time since 1963 captured the nation's attention and Chicago's heart in 2018. Coming from seemingly out of nowhere and cheered on by 98-year-old team chaplain Sister Jean, head coach Porter Moser's team strung together a historic run of NCAA...

The Chicago Blackhawks’ 2015 postseason run culminated in the team’s third Stanley Cup since 2010, the sixth championship in the Original Six franchise’s history. The road to hoisting the Cup was the bumpiest of Chicago’s three titles under head coach Joel Quenneville. The Blackhawks finished...

It has been called the last great American sports story, a quest that has spanned more than a century and captivated millions of fans. In 2016, the Chicago Cubs were at last baseball's champions, breaking the Curse of the Billy Goat and shedding the label of "lovable losers" once and for...

In 1927, the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition for "trained men of talent, incorporating into the small home ideas of real worth, types of rare charm, and the best possible plans for comfort and convenience." This collection spotlights the challenge’s top results, presenting the nineteen prize-winning...

Spending Smart is a compact but immensely helpful collection of columns from the weekly Chicago Tribune column penned by Gregory Karp. Offering tips for consumers across a wide variety of fields, including insurance, banking, cars, phones, homes, travel, and more, this book is a terrific primer for how...

Comprising articles from the Chicago Tribune's in-depth coverage of the Rita Crundwell scandal, Draining Dixon is the true-life account of the Dixon, Illinois, comptroller who embezzled over $50 million from municipal coffers during a twenty-year career in local government. From 1983 to April 2012,...

Good Eating's Vegetarian Cooking presents exciting yet simple vegetarian and vegan recipes selected or created by Kay Stepkin, author of "The Veggie Cook" column for the Chicago Tribune. Along with each recipe is an explanation of why Stepkin chose it for the column, often including dietary benefits,...

Finalist for 2014 International Association of Culinary Professionals' Best Compilation Cookbook AwardPrep School is the ultimate collection of the weekly Chicago Tribune column of the same name, written by culinary instructor and award-winning food writer James P. DeWan. This compilation is focused...

A light-hearted and funny guide that’s not your usual "self-help" book. Rather, this is a collection of lessons both amusingly obvious—like hailing a cab or hanging a painting—and impressively useful—like choosing an engagement ring or asking for a raise. Charming illustrations and diagrams are included throughout!