The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Fannie May offers free ‘Chocolate Ferry’

Fannie May chocolates have been a part of Chicago for 87 years. This year, the company celebrates the holidays by starting a new tradition, a free "Chocolate Ferry." The company started in 1920, when ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Downtown Moline Fannie May store to close this week

MOLINE -- They came in a steady stream Tuesday looking for Trinidads, Colonials, mint meltaways -- hoping to stock up before the downtown Fannie May candy store closes this week for good. ``What you ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Candy lovers mourn closing of Fannie May stores

CHICAGO (AP) -- Lisa MacKay is in mint meltaway mourning. The Fannie May stores -- a Chicago institution where candy lovers got their fix of almond bark, pixies, trinidads, vanilla caramels and mint ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Chocoholics say a sad farewell to Fannie May

For chocoholics like me, the announcement that the Fannie May stores will close has left us in shock and deeply saddened. I wish I could say that my favorite food was something more nutritious, like ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Pixies and Trinidads and Meltaways - Oh, my!

VALPARAISO -- Achieving her goal of selling the popular Fannie May candies at her gift shop has been like taking candy from a national corporation for Patricia Philips -- not easy. When her husband ...