OAK BROOK, Ill., (AP) - Moonstruck Chocolate Company has opened its second Chicagoland Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe at the Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook, Illinois.

The award-winning artisan chocolates are handcrafted, hand-decorated and hand-packaged in Portland. The company also owns and operates nine Moonstruck Chocolate Cafes in Oregon, California and Illinois. It has announced plans to open eight more cafes across the country by 2009.

Moonstruck Chocolate Cafes offer Moonstruck Chocolatier's full line of classic and seasonal handcrafted artisan chocolates.

Currently, there are five Moonstruck Chocolate Cafes in the Portland area, two in the San Francisco Bay area, two in the Detroit area, two in the Chicago area, one in Champaign, Illinois and one outside of Boston.

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