WIN: ‘The Most Beautiful Candy Factory in America,’ Mars Candy Factory Receives Final Landmark Recommendation

By Preservation Chicago

December 31, 2023

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a66bebc18360ef4d3d9c47f96c314238_c88fcv — Mars Candy Factory, 1929, The Austin Company with a contributing 1960 addition by C.F. Murphy Associates, 2019 N. Oak Park Ave. Photo credit: City of Chicago DPD Commission on Chicago Landmarks

Austin’s 94-Year-Old Mars Candy Factory Could Become City Landmark; A key city committee granted preliminary landmark status for the building’s architectural design and its contribution to Chicago’s history of candy making, Trey Arline, Block Club Chicago, 11/3/23
Sweet move: Chicago seeks to landmark West Side’s historic Mars candy factory; The correct action here would be a “yes” vote from the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, an important prelude to the factory’s redevelopment, Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board, 10/2/23
Preliminary landmark approved for Mars Candy Factory; The factory will be shuttered in 2024 after opening in 1929, Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago, 10/11/23

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