Livin’ La Vida Local: Celebrate National Candy Month in Chicago 2013

Treat Your Sweet Tooth at Best Local Spots in Chicago and the Suburbs

Four clear candy dispensers filled with various colorful candies, including chocolate-coated treats and pastel candy-coated almonds, are lined up side by side with handles for dispensing.

What could be sweeter than National Candy Month? Close out June with a sugar rush at these Best Local candy spots in Chicago and the suburbs near our corporate apartment locations. Your sweet tooth will thank you.

A market stall displays colorful swirled lollipops, large blocks of cheese, and packaged pastries. Signs with handwritten labels are visible among the various treats.

Get nostalgic at Best Local River North spot Candyality (520 N. Michigan Ave.), a store inspired by its owner’s childhood memories. This retro candy shop has everything from gummies, sours and taffies to gourmet truffles, chocolates and fudge. Have a taste, a 13-minute walk from 400 N. LaSalle in River North!

 

A person scooping colorful gummy candies from a display case into a pink and white striped paper bag, with various candies visible in trays.

 

Nook Yarn Shop (4738 Main St.) in Lisle is your suburban Best Local spot for the best candy, coffee, ice cream, popcorn, cookies and more. You can even pick up yarn at this spot, a knitter’s hangout. Get your pick of sweet treats, including retro 5-cent candy,  just a 9-minute drive from Lincoln at the Parks in Naperville!

Rows of glass jars filled with colorful assorted candies and sweets are displayed on shelves in a candy store. Some jars are open, showing gummy bears, licorice, jelly beans, and sour belts.

Welcome to candy heaven, also known as the Best Local shop Sweet Street Candies and Goodies (17 W. St. Charles Rd.) in Lombard. You’ll find more than 500 candy varieties here: everything from beloved, old-school favorites to “a million flavors” of Jelly Belly jelly beans. Let the sugar rush begin just an 11-minute drive from City View at the Highlands in Lombard!