The world's largest Starbucks will soon open in Chicago - and the decision to bring the company's biggest roastery to the Windy City was no accident.

Chicago was home to the company's first store in the U.S. outside of Seattle, as Starbucks banked its future on the Midwest city.

"Chicagoans, I was told, would never drink dark-roasted coffee," former CEO Howard Schultz wrote in his book "Pour Your Heart Into It." "But … we jumped feet first into Chicago, so in love with our product that we couldn’t imagine that everybody else wouldn’t love it, too."

The chain's first Chicago location opened in the city's Loop on Oct. 19, 1987.

Now, Starbucks is doing it again with its new Starbucks Reserve Roastery.

According to the company, the Chicago roastery will be the sixth of its kind, joining

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