Illinois got a little brighter this week. The state is now home to the most delicious rainbow anyone has ever tasted — Skittles.
Wrigley, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc., opened a state-of-the-art addition to its Yorkville, Ill., factory featuring a new Skittles line. Built as a 145,000-sq.-ft. addition to the Yorkville plant, which already was producing Wrigley sugar gums, the new part of the factory plays up the famous Skittles array of colors. Featuring floods of natural light, duct work in the shades of Skittles flavors, and large rainbow murals, it’s the stuff kids and candy makers dream of.