From the October 28, 2012, Chicago Tribune "Small treats, big business" by Katie Nieland.
There were two neat old photos accompanying this timeline set up like a piece of red licorice. One showed a Wrigley Co. delivery truck in front of the factory at 35th and Ashland in 1922. The other showed the interior of the Tootsie Roll plant in Chicago in 1975 with two women at a conveyor belt with candy going by which reminded me of that funniest of the funny "I Love Lucy" skit where she and Ethel worked at the chocolate factory. Now that was funny.
CHICAGO'S LONG CANDY HISTORY
1837 Chicago gets its first candy shop on South Water Street near Wells Street.
1870 There are 17 candy businesses in Chicago.
1900 Chicago candy companies total 65.
1904 Emil Brach opens a storefront called Brach's Palace of Sweets and sells caramels for 20 cents a pound. By 1911 he is selling more than 50,000 pounds a week.
1912 Gustav Goelitz's company (later renamed Jelly Belly Candy Co.) specializes in making candy corn in its North Chicago factory. (Wonder what they make now?)
1920 Fannie May and the Holloway Candy Co. are founded. Holloway sells Milk Duds and Slo Pokes (?) nationally. (Not sure what a Slo Poke is.)
More Mouth-Watering Stuff to Come. --DaCoot
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