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But at its founding in 1853

Originally a fur trading outpost known as “Hardscrabble

the neighborhood boasts of boutiques

” in today’s Ravenswood Industrial Corridor

Love Chicago sweet But at its founding inInspired by the fiery sweet candy famously made in Chicago, with notes of cinnamon, sugar, and spice. Salvatore Ferrara came to Chicago from Italy at the turn of the twentieth century without possessions, but with a love of baking. He saved enough money as an interpreter to open a bakery in Little Italy. There, in 1932, the little cinnamon imperial candies connected to love were born. Red Hots were the first branded candy of what became the Ferrara