The new Chicago French Market opens today in Ogilvie Transportation Center’s new MetraMarket. It will be the closest thing Chicago has to a public marketplace like those of cities such as Toronto, Philadelphia, Cleveland and even Milwaukee. Chicago’s first and only year-round, European-inspired indoor market offers fresh produce, meats, baked goods and a variety of [...]
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Do politics affect your grocery shopping? Since at least the 1960s, when Cesar Chavez asked shoppers to stop buying grapes in support of migrant farm workers, the boycott has been a powerful tool of consumers for influencing change in the marketplace. The latest movement is against Whole Foods, long the darling of upscale, educated foodies [...] |
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