It was less than two weeks before the start of Pitchfork, and all Anna Cerniglia knew about the geometric village she’d been contracted to build in Union Park was that it would consist of two small huts designed by the artists Chad Kouri and Heather Gabel. Or maybe one large pyramid. It all depended on Pitchfork’s safety regulations. She didn’t know where in the park it would be located or which carpenter would do the actual construction. But she had the funding—AJ Capital Partners, the group that owns the Thompson Hotel and Hotel Lincoln, had granted her proposal—so, sitting on a couch in New Wave Coffee in Logan Square, scrawling a to-do list in her notebook, she was remarkably calm. By the time the festival started, a village would exist.
With ten days to go, Cerniglia finally got the OK to build two small A-frame huts near the southern border of Union Park. After the festival, the huts will move to the Thompson and Lincoln hotels.
