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Patrick and Alycia, co-founders of Candycopia, posing in front of the store sign during their guest interview on the 'Supper with Sylvia' podcast episode titled 'Move Over Chocolate: Sweet, Sour, Dirty Soda with Candycopia'.

Move Over, Chocolate!
Sweet, Sour & Dirty (Soda!) with Candycopia

Hosted by: Emmy Award-winning journalist, Sylvia Perez
Posted:  October 29, 2026

With Halloween around the corner, we’re talking all things sweet! On this episode of Supper with Sylvia, we sit down with Patrick and Alycia Mason, the husband-and-wife duo behind Candycopia.

The hit suburban candy shop with locations in Oak Park and Elmhurst, Illinois, is winning over candy lovers with its popular Swedish gummies, dirty sodas, sour challenges, and nostalgic favorites.

Tune in for a fun, flavorful conversation that's sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Because there's no better time to talk candy than Halloween!

Listen to the full podcast interview on Supper with Sylvia.  >>

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Candycopia Breaks Guinness World Record
for World’s Largest Sour Candy Tasting 

by: Sarah Jindra, Ji Suk Yi
Posted: Jul 29, 2026 / 01:56 PM CDT

One Oak Park candy store is celebrating a major win! Candycopia has just set the record for the Guinness World Record’s “World’s Largest Sour Candy Tasting”

717 Lake St
Oak Park, IL

Watch Candycopia on WGN's 'Spotlight Chicago,'  >>

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Around Town has fun with all the candy trends at Candycopia

by: Ana Belaval, Natalie Skryd
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Ana speaks with Alycia and Patrick Mason about Candycopia's recent GUINNESS World Record, international candy, and Taylor Swift's favorite candy | Around Town

Watch Candycopia and Ana Belaval on WGN's 'Around Town'  >>

A sign on a store window promotes Candycopia's Attempt to Set a Guinness World Record

Oak Park's Candycopia Eyes Guinness World Record for Largest Sour Candy Tasting

By CAM'RON HARDY | Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune
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Though it’s only four years old, Candycopia in Oak Park is set to let the world know its name.

On July 18, which is National Sour Candy Day, Candycopia will attempt to set the world record for the world’s largest sour candy tasting.

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A WGN-TV news anchor makes a sour face while participating in Candycopia's 2026 Sour Candy Challenge

Candycopia Attempts Guinness World Record: Largest Sour Candy Tasting 

by: Sarah Jindra, Ji Suk Yi
Posted: Jul 29, 2026 / 01:56 PM CDT

One Oak Park candy store is celebrating a major win! Candycopia has just set the record for the Guinness World Record’s “World’s Largest Sour Candy Tasting”

717 Lake St
Oak Park, IL

Watch Candycopia on WGN's 'Spotlight Chicago,'  >>

The Mason Family standing in their Elmhurst, Illinois, store, standing in front of a sign that reads "Candycopia" on a white wall

Is Oak Park the sourest place on Earth? 

Candycopia to host ‘World’s Largest Sour Candy Tasting’ Saturday in attempt to achieve Guinness World Record; public invited to participate


by Jackie Pisano
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The Extravagant (and Loud) Candies Adults Can’t Stop Eating in 2025

Candy cognoscenti are sinking their teeth into premium sweets with serious chew and audible crunch. This is what conspicuous consumption looks (and sounds) like now.

By Charlotte Druckman, Wall Street Journal
Sept. 26, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET

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Would you try spooky Halloween candy?
Inside Candycopia’s Fright Flight Challenge 

This Halloween, Oak Park candy shop Candycopia is daring customers to try spooky, out-of-the-box sweets in its Fright Flight Candy Challenge. We joined in on the fun to see how brave our taste buds really are.

FOX-32, Chicago TV
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Weekend Break: Candycopia in Oak Park sells sweets and treats popular both in the U.S. and abroad

by: Michael Johnson, Emmy Victor
WGN-TV
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OAK PARK — In west suburban Oak Park, there’s a place that’s like a real-life Candyland.

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Candycopia Caters to Freeze-Dried CandyFad

Candycopia Caters to the Freeze-Dried Candy Fad

See it on TikTok? Find it in Oak Park

by Risé Sanders-Weir, Wednesday Journal of Oak Park
July 8, 2024

Candycopia on Lake Street in Oak Park is at the center of a new taste trend. The local candy store started freeze drying familiar candies, resulting in textures and flavor bursts unlike traditional confections.

This treat transformation was first popularized on Tik Tok.

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Candycopia in Oak Park offers challenge for National Sour Candy Day

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ABC News Channel 7 - The candy shop in Oak Park has a few different limited-time sour experiences.

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How to spend $50 at Candycopia

BY WEB BEHRENS, Chicago Magazine
Oak Park’s appetizing new boutique proves there are many ways to get a sugar rush.

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A Passion for Caramel: Candycopia’s Patrick Mason

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Oakpark.com - On the day before Candycopia opened in Oak Park’s Medical Arts building, 717 Lake St., I stopped by to chat with Patrick Mason, who owns the bright new store with wife Alycia.
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Enjoy the sweet side of life at Candycopia

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Oakpark.com - Sweet dreams do come true! Oak Park residents, Patrick and Alycia Mason, along with their school aged daughters Addison and Campbell, proudly opened Candycopia in the historic Medical Arts building


Local family-owned sweets shop opens in Oak Park, offering a ‘candycopia’ of treats and experiences

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Chicago Tribune - It’s a Tuesday morning in July and Candycopia, the new brightly-colored, impeccably-arranged candy store in downtown Oak Park, is packed with parents and children trying to decide which sweet treat to buy. 
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Candycopia poised for spring arrival on Lake Street

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Oakpark.com - A bounty of candy is headed to Oak Park courtesy of the Mason family. Patrick and Alycia Mason, along with their daughters Addison (11) and Campbell (8), are eager to bring Candycopia to a storefront in the historic Medical Arts building!
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