Chicago's best-selling almanac just got better! Chicago Sun-Times reporters Don Hayner & Tom McNamee give you more great stories, completely updated. The Metro Chicago Almanac is one of the city's most essential - & entertaining - reference books. It is indispensible to anybody looking for the lowdown on the City of Big Shoulders. This book is a one-stop shopping trip for all those facts & quirky pieces of lore that make up the essence of this town. Among the standard categories in the Metro Chicago Almanac are "List of Tens" (such as the ten tallest buildings in Chicago), Chicago "Firsts" (such as the first Weber Grill, appropriately invented in the suburbs), "Extremes" (such as the hottest, coldest, windiest, & snowiest days), "Famous Chicagoans," & "Classic Quotes."