Chicago Will Be the Ingredients Capital in July

For more than a century, Chicago has been a mecca of food product development and culinary exploration. The city is even named for a food; the name Chicago derives from a word that local Native Americans gave to wild leeks. Chicago’s location on Lake Michigan and the waterways that connected it to the Mississippi River as well as it being a central hub for railroads contributed to the growth of industry, including food manufacturing. The significant population growth from the mid-19th cen…