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Margie's Candies - Ravenswood

Super GemRavenswood · Ice Cream/Candy Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1813 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

Peter Poulos -- George and Margie Poulos's son -- opened this Montrose Avenue location in 2005, more than 80 years after his parents' original Western Avenue shop first opened in 1921 under the name Security Sweet Shop, before it ever became Margie's. Peter died of cancer in April 2023 at 86; his son George has since taken over as fourth-generation owner of both locations and told local press he intends to keep things "the exact same, from the menu to the old-school kitschy decor," with plans to run the business for years and eventually hand it down to his own kids -- a fifth generation, if it happens.

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The Hot Fudge Sundae has been the order since long before "Chicago institution" was a phrase anyone needed to use to describe it.

Preservation Chicago flagged the transition specifically because Chicago legacy businesses this consistently family-run are getting rarer, not more common.

Same banana splits in the classic clamshell dishes, same homemade candy here as always, but this remains the second-generation expansion location, not the Bucktown original where the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually stopped in.

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🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 348-0400

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