From Leen Yassin at Block Club Chicago
Blommer Chocolate Closing Chicago Factory
WEST LOOP — Blommer Chocolate Company is closing its Chicago factory, officials announced Friday.
The facility at 600 W. Kinzie St. has been running since 1939, and it’s Blommer’s original manufacturing plant, officials said. The decision to close is due to the increasing costs and repairs required to maintain the building, which have also led to production reliability issues.
The facility is set to close in May, the Sun-Times reported.
That smell though!
I knew the smell of this place very well at one point in my life. The coolest part of it, IMO, was that they ran some train tracks right up along factory, just east of it. Once upon a dark evening, I was passing through there, and I watched them unload the raw cocoa beans off the rail cars. The beans were dumped into a weird conveyor belt they had running between the tracks. The belt ran under the alley, sort of, too. Dudes with brooms would sweep the stray cocoa beans that didn't make it at first, off the alley asphalt, and onto the conveyor belt. That detail stuck with me. I assume the uhh, "impurities" got cooked off later.
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