Mars factory's closing is sour, not sweet, for Chicago. The city once was toasted as America's 'Candy Capital.'

Chicago was once the epicenter of candy bar empires. In response, in 1941, a federal agency bestowed upon Chicago the title of “Candy Capital of the United States.”

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