Breaking via Eater Chicago, Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea are prepping to open what will be their 5th retail location in the Windy City. Located in the Logan Square neighborhood, this new shop might be located directly next to recently renovated Logan Square Theater, and may very well be taking over in place of the allegedly soon-to-be-departed business at 2642 North Milwaukee Avenue. None of this is able to be confirmed or denied by Intelligentsia at time of publication, and is based purely on rampant Twitter speculation. Eater has more details:

Eater has learned that the popular Chicago-based coffee roaster will open up a new cafe in the heart of the neighborhood near the Logan Theater and close to Telegraph and Longman & Eagle. The cafe will open sometime later this year, but other than that, few details have been made available other than it will be “something a little different, something we’re really excited about,” according to a source at the company.

We can report with that Logan Square is one of three planned new Intelli locations in 2012, and is designed by Gensler, the architecture firm behind Intelli’s 1871 concept counter. Look for more (actual legitimate confirmed) details on this and Intelli’s other new cafe spaces on Sprudge in the coming weeks.

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A secret sexy source told Sprudge: “Our t-shirts showed a rainbow with our old I-Pot logo at one end, and the wings at the other. The banners on the side said ‘Alive Since 95′, a reference to the fact our original store (Broadway) has been operating out of Boy’s Town for nearly 17 years.”

Well done, ladies.

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Intelligentsia Chicago cafes just got an upgrade in deliciousness, Chicago Business writer Kate MacArthur reports:

Pastoral Artisan Cheese Bread & Wine is providing sandwiches, salads and plates of cheese and charcuterie to sell at Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea Inc.’s three Chicago coffee shops.

Pastoral is making and delivering the offering daily, with menu items changing every other day. Sandwich and salad prices start at $7.50, while plates that include meat, cheese, dried fruit or olives, and toasted breads cost $8. Items will vary by season. The service started Jan. 16.

“We consider Pastoral’s offerings as a perfect complement to our menu of direct trade coffees and teas,” Intelligentsia co-founder Doug Zell said in a statement.

Ooh, yum. The article goes on to (somewhat misguidedly) compare Intelligentsia to Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, both having turned a tidy profit on expanded food offerings in recent years, but neither having anything on Canadian chicken-salad-and-crueller merchants Tim Horton’s in terms of overall swill-to-carbs ratio (STCR). We personally trust the taste-testing veritas of the Chicago Intelli crew, even if it means they were briefly forced to forgo more tacos at Big Star.

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“I have no idea where this rumor came from. It is completely unfounded,” says CEO Doug Zell. Stephen Morrissey adds, “We don’t even know anyone at Coca Cola.” Director of Strategy Kyle Glanville quipped: “Man, I was looking forward to doing quality control on all that Mexican Coke. Damn rumors got my hopes up.”

To be clear on our end: we neither implied nor directly stated that Intelligentsia was the company in question with regards to our report. These aspersions were disseminated on Twitter by individuals who have no association with Sprudge, editorial or otherwise.

Suffice it to say, we’ll be listening to whispers on the show room floor next week in Houston, and you can stay tuned to Sprudge.com for the all the latest as this story develops…

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