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Ever since celebrated Chicago chef Kristine Subido graduated from culinary school in 1993, she’s cooked Mediterranean, Italian, and even gourmet Fre...

Writer Lynda Mullaly Hunt likes ordinary heroes. “Both of my books [One for the Murphys and (the upcoming) Alphabet Soup] have themes of ‘Be someo...

In 2006, Lesley Tweedy and her husband made a longtime dream come true when they took an old Chicago storefront and converted it into a neighborhood b...

“Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood. A mad-faced mood.” So begins author Megan McDonald’s book Judy Moody Was in a Mood, abou...