The Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy is set to open next month in the Montgomery Ward building (600 W. Chicago Ave.), its first academy in the United States. Today Callebaut announced that award-winning pastry chef and instructor Jerome Landrieu will head the Academy. more ›

Our winter just became more tolerable with the news that chocolate maker Barry Callebaut A.G. is opening a chocolate academy in Chicago. The academy, slated to open in June, will be in Callebaut's local headquarters in the Montgomery Ward building on West Chicago in River West and fulfills the company's desire to have an academy in the United States. more ›