• Home
• About the Exhibit
• History of Chocolate and Candy Making in Chicago
• "Pilot": An Authoritative book on the Manufacture of Candies and Ice Creams
• The Manufacturing Confectioner
• Directory of Confectionery Manufacturers
• Choice Confections: Manufacturing Methods and Formulas
• The Wrigley Spearmen at Work and Play
• National Confectioners Association Annual Report
• All About Candy and Chocolate: A Comprehensive Study of the Candy and Chocolate Industries
• Chicago’s Candy Kettle
• Women in the Candy Industry in Chicago and St. Louis Bulletin
• Cellar Bakeries and Their Dangers to Producers and Consumers
• Home-made Ice Cream and Candy
• Historical Sketch of the Confectionery Trade of Chicago
• The Technology of Candy Making
• Modern Practical Gum Work Manual
• Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America
• The Sugar Shortage and Substitutes for Sugar
• Poisoned Confectionary Detection of Gamboge, Lead, Copper, Mercury, and Chromate of Lead in Various Articles of Sugar Confectionary
• Mastercraft in Cakes and Decorating: Decorating Designs and Instructions, Recipes and Methods of Handling
• Candy Production, Methods, and Formulas
• The Technology of Chocolate Making
• Modern Methods of Cocoa and Chocolate Manufacture
• Essays on Cacao, Cocoa and Chocolate
• Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes
• Cocoa and Chocolate: A Short History of Their Production and Use, with Full and Particular Account of Their Properties, and of the Various Methods of Preparing Them for Food
• The Chocolate Plant and its Products
• Chocolate, Cocoa and Confectionery: Science and Technology
• The Cocoa and Chocolate Industry; the Tree, the Bean, the Beverage
• The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations
• Coffee, Tea and Chocolate: Their Influence Upon the Health, the Intellect, and the Moral Health of Man
• Bibliography

Introduction

Wrigley's gum, Fannie May chocolate, and Cracker Jack are just some of the confections that have been created and manufactured in Chicago, a major center of candy production in the 20th century. Drawing from items in the substantial cookery collection at the John Crerar Library, this exhibit explores the history of chocolate and confectioners in the city and the science and technology of the candy making process.

Sweet Home Chicago: Chocolate and Confectionery Production and Technology in the Windy City.

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