https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=2933593&GUID=748B042E-CDA7-4301-8E65-472F247292A4Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=2933593&GUID=748B042E-CDA7-4301-8E65-472F247292A4748B042E-CDA7-4301-8E65-472F247292A4-2017-01-19-17-11-40Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF M&M CANDIES WHEREAS, M&M candies, the iconic, colorful, button-shaped candy, is celebrating its 75th anniversary of production; and WHEREAS, M&M candies is a product of Mars, Incorporated, which was founded in 1911 In Tacoma, Washington, and now is an international company with manufacturing plants throughout the United States, Belgium, Great Britain, Mexico, and 17 other locations in Europe and Asia; and WHEREAS, Mars Candy has had a presence on the Northwest Side of Chicago in the Galewood neighborhood since 1929; and WHEREAS, the original candies produced by Mars include Milky Way (1923), Snickers (1930), and Three Musketeers (1932); and WHEREAS, the first M&M candies were produced in 1941 and were designed to allow soldiers in World War II to carry chocolate that would not melt; and WHEREAS, the two “M’s” stand for “Mars,” after the Mars family, and “Murrie,” after Bruce Murrie, son of the president of Hershey’s, which at the time had a twenty percent stake in M&M’s; and WHEREAS, packaged in cardThu, 19 Jan 2017 17:11:40 GMT