Valerie Beck
Are you familiar with Sweetest Day? If you've heard of it, maybe you've heard it's a "Hallmark holiday," or not a "real" holiday? Well, here's the sweet scoop!
Sweetest Day has grown to be a holiday mainly in the Midwest region of the US, similar to Valentine's Day. The day actually started not as a celebration of love per se, but as a celebration of candy!
Sweetest Day started in Cleveland in 1921 as a philanthropic effort of 12 candy makers who donated over 20,000 boxes of candy to the poor, elderly, and orphaned. Since then, it has blossomed into a special day to tell people you love them, and is celebrated on the third Saturday in October; that means this year it's on October 17. People often celebrate Sweetest Day with gifts, dinner out, and of course chocolate!
Since Chicago is historically known as the chocolate and candy capital of the United States, celebrating Sweetest Day in Chicago, on a Chicago Chocolate Tour, makes sweet sense!
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