A day before Barrington’s Jewel Tea Building was due to again face the bulldozer, it won a short reprieve and a long-sought place in the history books. The Barrington Park District had planned to ...

The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, has produced millions of beautiful china pieces since its founding in 1903. But by far its most popular pattern is what was later named Autumn Leaf.

The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, made the first pieces of the Autumn Leaf pattern ware, also known as Jewel Tea, as premiums for the Jewel Tea Company of Barrington, Ill., in 1933, with ...

As a wrecking crew Sunday resumed demolition of the Jewel Tea building in Barrington to make way for parkland, a citizens group awaited word on its last-ditch offer of more than $3 million to save the ...

A decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a ...