(AP) — Mars Inc. has closed a deal to purchase chewing-gum company Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. to become the world's largest candy maker. Mars, the privately held maker of M&Ms, Snickers and Skittles, paid ...

Charles Beersman was thirty-one when he began designing the Wrigley Building, young even in those days for such a major commission. Why he was given this break is unknown. From the very beginning, ...

The Wrigley Mansion has always been a destination for some of the very best views in town. Built by chewing gum mogul William Wrigley Jr. in 1932 as a gift for his wife, the sprawling home features ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- William Wrigley Jr.'s family spent more than 115 years building the soap salesman's fledging company into a massive corporation that made chewing gum a mass-market product. But Monday, ...

The behind-the-scenes story of how the celebrated Chicago landmark came to be. Charles Beersman was thirty-one when he began designing the Wrigley Building, young even in those days for such a major ...

CHICAGO - Snickers and M&Ms candy maker Mars Inc. is buying Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., which makes Juicy Fruit and Doublemint gum and Life Savers, for about $23 billion in cash. The agreement announced ...