Pilsen Fest aims to expose the Latino community to the deep pool of cultural talent that exists in the thriving Pilsen neighborhood and the Chicago metropolitan area (musicians, culinary arts, mixologists, poets, muralists, painters, writers, documentarians, and photographers). Along with the Pilsen Book and Humanities Festival, the Pilsen Fest and El BeiSMan are working to preserve Pilsen’s historic legacy of being the center of diverse Latino/Mexican cultural production in the Chicago metropolitan area.