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...staffers at the Chicago office of the Environmental Protection Agency should be expecting chocolate and flowers this Valentine's Day. Ever since the agency cited the Blommer Chocolate Company for alleged clean air violations late last year, Chicagoans have been feeling pretty sour...
...Theresa Raycroft isn't buying it. Her apartment has a bird's-eye view of Blommer's, where walk-ins can sample free chocolate. A neighbor for nearly 20 years, Raycroft says she's puzzled why anyone would complain about a little cocoa dust in one of the last heavily industrialized sections of downtown, where trucks, traffic, construction and noise are much more offensive...
...Lost amidst all the uproar is the fact that the Blommer family, which still owns and operates the factory, agreed with the EPA that its factory "opacity," or the amount of light blocked by emissions, was too high. They turned on a newly installed filter system in January, although they have yet to receive a final OK from the EPA. Rick Blommer has tried to stay out of the fray. "I'm just going to make chocolate," he says. Skinner can only wish that everyone was as even-keeled about the controversy. As he puts it, "we do feel...
...consolidation, this was the greatest in the history of furniture and allied industries. Milwaukee Dairies. To make ice cream, cheese, butter and other milk products on a vast scale and to sell them in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and the northern peninsula of Michigan-the Waukesha Milk Co., the Blommer Ice Cream Co., and the Bendfelt Ice Cream Co., all of Milwaukee, last week consolidated their interests as the Wisconsin Creameries...
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