About Chicago
We are Chiphiles!
We love the city of Chicago! Our activities are centered in it, around it, for it. Our programs focus almost exclusively on the city and its well being. We do it through support of the arts and arts education. See our Programs page for more information.
So What is so Special About this Town?
- Public Parks and Beaches
- Music (classical, opera, folk, blues, jazz, rock, etc.)
- Summer festivals (Lollapalooza, Grant Park Symphony, Blues Fest, Jazz Fest, Gospel Fest, etc.),
- Restaurants (Food – Pizza, Italian beef, steak, French, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, taverns, Garrett’s popcorn!),
- Museums (Art Institute, Field, aquarium, planetarium),
- Sports (2 baseball, football, hockey, basketball – all in the city),
- Free summer fireworks twice weekly off of Navy Pier, Navy Pier
- Two zoos
- Two conservatories
- Access to health care even for women!
- Higher education (public and private)
- Thriving local economy
- Amazing neighborhoods embracing many ethnicities
- Shopping
- Great diverse architecture
- Extensive transportation system (expressways, ‘L,’ buses and commuter rail – many of which run overnight)
- A good tech sector
- Absolutely beautiful lakefront, free and accessible to the public.
- Public services (libraries, recreation, reliable trash collection, plentiful clean drinking water, functioning lighting on all of the expressways).
- Huge theater scene – independent nonprofit, Broadway style, improv.
- Art movie houses
- Free humanities events
- Lots of good, decent, hard-working people with down-to-earth, Midwestern values.
Now, we all know that big cities can have problems and Chicago is no different. Any responsible citizen’s response, be they from a city or elsewhere, is to study, construct, and support solutions. These days, sadly, there are many who, mired in enmity and partisanship, are instead dedicated to finding and demonizing an “other,” sometimes a city, sometimes Chicago. Such vituperative trolls who may have wandered onto this site should move on.
Pistocelli Services is concerned with finding and supporting those arts organizations in Chicago which are dedicated to creating beauty, humanity, and understanding in the city’s many neighborhoods.
