Welcome!

Welcome to the Homepage of the Dill Pickle Food Co-op! The Dill Pickle Food Coop is a member-owned grocery store forming in Logan Square, Chicago. We offer healthy food choices and the benefits of cooperative practice to build a vibrant local community and more sustainable world. We meet community needs and strengthen area diversity through products, services, and education. All the information you need to become a part of our member-owned grocery store is available here on this website.

Dill Pickle is proud to announce that we have acquired a storefront at 3039 W Fullerton Ave, just a couple of blocks away from the California Ave Blue Line stop in Logan Square. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Our goal is to open the store by March 1st, 2009.

Dill Pickle, when fully operational, will be a consumer cooperative, a grocery store that is owned and democratically controlled by the members who shop at the store. Any shopper can become a member, and the store will open to everyone, regardless if they are a member. The look and feel of the store and the products on the shelves are controlled by the members, and any financial surplus at years end is distributed back to the members as a patronage refund.

We will first and foremost offer people who are unhappy shopping at major grocery stores a viable alternative. Dill Pickle's commitment to local, organic and healthy food will go far beyond the commitment of chain stores. We will connect residents with local food producers and create a store whose major concern is quality and affordability, not corporate profits.

Want to help? More than anything else, we need you to become a paid member and help us recruit others to join. We also need our members to participate in the co-op's governance, including the upcoming board election. Also, please talk to your friends and neighbors about the co-op to help spread awareness of our vision.

To keep up to date on what we are doing, sign up for our mailing list above! Yahoo members can join our foodcoop group and members can join gogocoop to see all our board communication. We are also accepting donations through PayPal as well!

Thanks for coming, and we hope to see you soon!