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Margie’s Candies A sweet Chicago destination for more than 100 years
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If you’re a Chicagoan, chances are you’ve experienced the decadent pleasures of Margie’s, an old-fashioned ice cream and candy restaurant. Margie’s Candies is a tried-and-true Chicago original. People wait in line all year long to get a taste of creamy ice cream ladled with hand-made fudge and caramel, or scrumptious homemade pecan terrapins, chocolate-covered marshmallows or taffy apples, made from scratch. • The caramel is stirred to perfection right on location. After the caramel is silky smooth, and cooled, the terrapins and other candies are created with chocolate and pecans - right across the street. Longtime customers are plentiful. Hot Dog who started coming to Margie’s 50 years ago, emphatically states, it’s the oldest, and the best. • Margie’s has a storied history of celebrity visits including movie star Kim Novak, gangster Al Capone, actress Meryl Streep, former Chicago Cubs star, Carlos Zambrano and last but not least, the Beatles. A customer who has been coming to Margie’s for more than three decades discovered the Beatles had once eaten there on their trip to Chicago in the 60s. • He then planned to sit in a different seat each time he visited the restaurant in order to proclaim, I sat and ate ice cream at the same place the Beatles did! • • Margie’s was started by a Greek immigrant and his wife over 100 years ago, 1921 to be exact; their daughter Margie worked at the restaurant into her 90s. One customer recalls how Margie knew if one of her regulars was having a bad day, because an extra scoop of ice cream or chocolate would magically appear on their plate. The fourth generation of the Poulos family now runs the restaurant. • Manager Maria Gomez says people love coming back to Margie’s because it’s a great memory in a venue that never changes much. Whether it was a first date or a marriage proposal that happened there, when customers return many years later, they find a sweet memory, preserved. • According to Hot Dog, Margie’s means satisfaction, contentment, happiness, and it doesn’t get any better than that! • Check us out on: • Website - www.localish.com • Facebook - / localish • Instagram - / localish • Twitter - / localish • Localish is all about bringing out the good in America’s cities. Our locally-sourced stories transcend city limits so you can live like a local wherever you go. • #Localish #GoodPeople #GoodNews
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