Green City Market Cookbook, a collection of recipes from the customers and vendors of Lincoln Park’s farmers’ market ($24.99, Barnes & Noble, 1130 N. State St.).
Photos: Anna Knott
Reasons to Love Type pencils by A. Favorite Design in Ravenswood ($9.50 for set of nine, Greer, 1657 N. Wells St.).
Big City Suds soaps made in Lincoln Square ($6.75 each, Neighborly, 2003 W. Montrose Ave.).
Beechwood and stainless steel pocket knife designed in Logan Square by Field ($22, field-online.com).
Ecstatic Cahoots, an anthology of short fiction by Chicagoan of the Year honoree Stuart Dybek ($24, The Book Cellar, 4736–38 N. Lincoln Ave.).
Smoked cinnamon sugar toffee produced in Logan Square ($15 for quarter-pound box, Vosges Haut-Chocolat, 520 N. Michigan Ave.).
Dry gin from Koval in Ravenswood ($15 for 200-milliliter bottle, koval-distillery.com).