South Side Pie Challenge 2025

South Side Pie Challenge 2025

Bakers and Pie Fans, after two pandemic editions of the South Side Pie Challenge – the Virtual Pie Challenge in Spring of 2020 and Pie It Forward in Fall of 2020, plus the outdoor Pie Challenge in 2021, and 2023, our biggest fundraising year ever for local hunger causes – WE ARE BACK AGAIN!

This year, we look forward to seeing you for the Pie Challenge at Ray Elementary School at 5631 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park.

Join us as we celebrate the art of baking and eating pie! We will again be raising money for the Hyde Park/Kenwood Hunger Programs! We will again be holding one of the city’s longest-running juried amateur pie-baking events! And, we will again come together as a community to support both our neighbors and our beautiful South Side!

Are you ready to compete again with your friends and neighbors for pie ascendancy? Are you ready to fundraise for hunger relief?

Instructions for bakers on November 1: please deliver TWO IDENTICAL PIES in disposable pie pans to the Ray Elementary School, 5631 S. Kimbark Ave, between the hours of 9:00 am and 10:30 am.

**** Due to health and safety concerns, pies with MERINGUE topping can’t be accepted, please top with Whipped Cream instead.

All pies will be sold to the public at $5 per slice between 2 pm – 5 pm.