Cheli’s Children’s Foundation was created in 1992 and has donated millions of dollars to many children’s related charities in Chicago, Detroit and other locations throughout the United States.  Some of the charities that have been supported by Cheli’s Children’s Foundation include:

 

• Children’s Memorial Hospital
  (now Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago)

• Misericordia

• Father Smyth’s Standing Tall Foundation

• Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois

• Ilitch Children’s Charities

• Teen Cancer America