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Margie’s Candies is the name of two popular confectioneries on the north side of Chicago. Owned by the same family, each one is part candy store and part sit-down ice cream parlor. The older of the two establishments has been operating at the same location for over a century and is widely considered a "Chicago legend". [1]
Other mascots include the "cool one", Blue (voiced by Robb Pruitt) [56] [57] who is the mascot for Almond M&M's; the seductive Green (her personality is a reference to the 1970s urban legend that green M&Ms were aphrodisiacs) [58] (voiced by Cree Summer and Larissa Murray), [57] who is the mascot for both Dark Chocolate Mint and Peanut Butter M ...
The Curtiss Candy Company was an American confectionery brand and a former company based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1916 by Otto Schnering near Chicago, Illinois. Wanting a more "American-sounding" name (due to anti-German sentiment during World War I), Schnering named his company using his mother's maiden name.
While touring the campus, we learned that the M&M's brand was founded by Forrest E. Mars, Sr. in 1941, and that it was the first candy in space in 1982. Leighanne Eide, the Mars Chocolate North ...
New M&M's spokesperson, Maya Rudolph, reveals the new name for the popular candy as part of the brand's Super Bowl campaign. (Photo: Mars Inc./YouTube) (Mars Inc./YouTube)
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The move to sideline M&M's popular spokescandies comes a mere four months after the brand introduced an all-new purple cast member — the first new addition in over a decade — as part of a ...
Bigsby & Kruthers was a high profile men's clothier in Chicago for 30 years from 1970 to 2000. The privately held company was founded by Joe Silverberg, joined shortly thereafter by his brother, H. Gene Silverberg, who both got their start as children working on Maxwell Street.