Breakthru Bypasses Reyes in Chicago

Dear Client: After we reported the story that Reyes' Chicago Beverage Systems was going to merge with their craft-centric sister company, Windy City, I got several messages from readers suggesting this was a shot across the bow of all the other blue-silver-gold distributors in the area -- traditionally called the "MillerCoors cluster" -- that Reyes was ready to "Californicate" greater Chicago, as one source put it.   When the Hand family and their partners bought Lakeshore Beverage years ago, they competed