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Downtown Chicago chocolate factory to close

Blommer Chocolate is closing its downtown Chicago factory following plummeting sales and increased maintenance and repair costs for the 85-year-old building, the company announced Friday. Built in 1939, the brick factory is Blommer’s original production facility, known for sending an unmistakable chocolate smell throughout the Fulton River District from its location at 600 W. Kinzie St. The ...
A person walks past the Blommer Chocolate Company at 600 W. Kinzie St. in Chicago on March 22, 2024.

Blommer Chocolate is closing its downtown Chicago factory following plummeting sales and increased maintenance and repair costs for the 85-year-old building, the company announced Friday.

Built in 1939, the brick factory is Blommer’s original production facility, known for sending an unmistakable chocolate smell throughout the Fulton River District from its location at 600 W. Kinzie St. The factory is closing because of

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