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Best Candy Store (2023)
JULY 7, 2023
If you have a sweet tooth to satisfy, you should check out these 10 independent candy stores across the United States. Nominated by a panel of experts and voted as the best by our readers, these candy shops stand out because they carr
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Chicago’s Windy City Sweets Partners with U.S. Navy to Offer Boot Camp Graduates Custom Chocolates
Nov 8th 2018
Windy City Sweets wishes smooth sailing to U.S. Navy boot camp graduates with custom chocolates.
There are lots of things
we associate with
graduations — caps
and gowns, springlike weather, bouquets of flowers.
When service members graduate
from boot camp, the clothing changes,
the spring-like weather isn’t always
present and, in the case of sailors
graduating from Gr
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Windy City Sweets is Chicago's Candy Store
Jul 12th 2017
Windy City Sweets is Chicago's Candy Store: The family-owned business has served the Lakeview neighborhood since 1983. When Jill Manchester was a young child, her parents had the same talk with her as many parents have with their children. In order to keep their daughter safe, they wanted to instill in her the rule to not get into a car with strangers. Her parents ran
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Chicago Magazine: Best Candy Store
Jul 9th 2017
Plan a Baby’s Day Out: Winners for best new toy store, candy store, indoor playground, kid-friendly bar, new-mom workout, child-friendly brunch, and baby hat. Best Candy Store: Windy City Sweets. Pixy Stix, Pop Rocks, Big League Chew, housemade s’mores—let’s be honest: For nostalgic moms and dads, bringing a child to this fantasia of a sweets shop is just a prete
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The 41 Most Instagram-Worthy Ice Cream Shops in the United States
You do it all for the 'gram.LAURA BECK PUBLISHED: JUN 12, 2017 5:25 PM ESTYou scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream — especially if we can get a crazy-cute Instagram along with all the creamy calories. If you like your sweet treat with a side of a drool-inducing Instagram, this is the list for you. I
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