Fannie May's- (E.Wacker) Chicago,IL

Not too far from my hotel in Chicago was Fannie May's, a candy shop that has multiple locations however, it is found typically in the Mid-West (www.fanniemay.com). The location which I visited was on Michigan and Wacker. For those who have never been, but know of See's Candies, this store seemed relatively similar. The store's main product is chocolates, and they had a bunch of gourmet flavors to choose from. They have the option to either hand select your box of chocolates, or choose from the many prepackaged gifts they have all along the store walls. 

They even have cute themed candies such as the one's featured below. You can either have them placed in bags and measured by weight, or as a packaged set. If you look above, they had a few in plastic round containers (bottom shelf).

The store wasn't too large, and when I went, there were hardly any people inside; which made it easy to look and think about what I wanted to purchase while I was in the store. Their selection of chocolates included creams, caramels, nuts, dark, milk, cookie stuffed, white, marshmallow, fruit, nougat, and mint. My favorite is the fruit fudge milk chocolates which are comprised of a chocolate cream fudge with fruit and nuts covered with milk chocolate. I'm a huge fan of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut chocolate bar, and not many companies make this mix, so I like when I find stores that carry it. They have a flavor to please almost any person. I think that the only flavor they were missing from their hand selected chocolates was coffee.    

Other than chocolates, Fannie May's also carries gummi assortments, fudge, cookies, nuts, and in this location, ice cream. What I found to be unique when going to this store was that they had local souvenirs. Since this store was in Chicago, they had Chicago Cubs chocolates, and also chocolates with Chicago packaging. It sort of made me think of collecting the chocolates to say which Fannie May's I've visited, it's something I always do when I see a Hard Rock Restaurant for their pins, but chocolate is so much sweeter ;) hehe.

Towards the back of the store if you have time, you should take a look at the photos that they have commemorating the history of Fannie May's. This brand is almost a century old, so they have a lot of history. Make sure when taking a look around to read the labels on their products. Everything seems to look the same however, each box has something different. It was quite interesting to see the huge assortment of chocolates they carried. Their cookies were great too, and really fresh. It's not common to see prepackaged cookies that are still soft to the touch. I like my cookies soft and not crunchy, so I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up a few of their cookies and they were able to be bent at the slightest touch.