1st Ward United: 1st Ward United is an Independent Political Organization working towards a more progressive Chicago. [IG]
12th Ward IPO: An independent, progressive political organization fighting for the interests of the communities on the Southwest Side of Chicago. [IG]
15th Ward IPO: The 15th Ward Independent Political Organization is a resident-led organization that works to develop independent political empowerment in the 15th Ward. [IG]
15th Ward Neighbors: Independent Political Organization doing political education and advocacy on the Southwest Side. [IG]
25th Ward IPO: The 25th Ward IPO strives to build working class power amongst the diverse communities of the 25th Ward. With an understanding that our debilitating capitalist society must be transformed into a society based on equity and need, the IPO fights for housing for all and an end to gentrification, a safe, sustainable environment, a justice system in which there is actual justice, and an economy that works for the many, not the few. [Website] [IG]
30th United: An IPO working to empower community members’ voices, build politics that work for working people and families, elect people who share our visions and values, and model inclusivity and transparency. Their goal is to build political power and win policies that will improve the lives of all Chicagoans in the 30th Ward, as well as all across the city. [Website] [IG]
33rd Ward Working Families: 33rd Ward Working Families builds political power through advocacy and education around daily issues that affect the material well-being of residents of Chicago’s 33rd Ward. [Website] [IG]
39th Ward Neighbors United: An independent political organization that fights for racial, social and economic justice in Chicago’s 39th Ward. Through advocacy, direct action and education, they advance progressive legislation and support grassroots movements that improve the lives of the people in our community, while understanding our connection to all residents in the city of Chicago. [Website] [IG]
40th Ward Workers United: 40th Ward Workers United is an Independent Political Organization (IPO) in the 40th Ward, grounded in liberating neighbors for a better future. [IG]
44th Ward Neighbors: Neighbors in Chicago’s Lakeview for grassroots political organizing & mutual aid. [IG]
48th Ward Neighbors for Justice: 48th Ward Neighbors for Justice is an independent political organization that supports leftist causes and represents the political interests of the multiracial working class of Edgewater, Andersonville, Uptown, and neighborhoods across the city. [Website] [IG]
50th Ward United Working Families: Residents of Chicago’s diverse 50th Ward who believe the interests of the many, not the few, should guide decisions. [IG]
Action Now: Action Now is a social justice organization serving Austin, North Lawndale, Auburn Gresham, Englewood, and East and West Garfield that door knocks, calls, and hosts events to build relationships within the Black community and help build shared vision and plans for how we achieve thriving futures. [Website] [IG]
Albany Park Organizing Committee: Anti-imperialist, abolitionist mutual aid collective hosting regular food distributions in Albany Park, organizing an emergency warming space in the winter and more, along with consciousness-raising, local power building and political education. [Website] [IG]
Alliance for the Southeast (ASE): ASE is a multicultural, interfaith coalition of churches, schools, businesses, and community organizations, all working together to address the challenges facing the neighborhoods of Southeast Chicago. Formerly the Alianza Leadership Institute, they have grown from a series of leadership skills workshops to a powerful network with over 40 community partners representing thousands of people. [Website]
Bridgeport Alliance: Bridgeport Alliance is a grassroots organization of local residents and institutions committed to engage in the decision making that impacts our community utilizing education, advocacy, and collaborative action to promote responsive government and an improved quality of life for all residents. [Website] [IG]
Bridges / Puentes: Bridges//Puentes Justice Collective of the Southeast is a community-based organization committed to social justice and community building throughout the Southeast Side of Chicago. Our work is centered around issues of racial justice, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, environmental and economic justice. We aim to build bridges between different communities and create a network of support and solidarity that can work toward righting the legacy of inequalities faced by our neighborhoods. [Website] [IG]
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council: Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) is a community-based, nonprofit organization striving to create a vibrant and equitable community where everyone can thrive. [Website] [IG]
Coalition for a CBA: We are the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition, of organizations from across Chicago. To stop displacement, we have introduced a CBA ordinance to Chicago’s City Council. The Obama Presidential Center is coming home! This can help build the kind of communities that Obama fought for, OR it could displace longtime residents. Let’s push back on being pushed out by outlining a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) around the Obama library, to require that jobs be set aside for people in communities around the Obama presidential center, protect housing for working families, low incomes, and home owners support and create Black businesses strengthen neighborhood schools. [Website] [IG]
Friendship Community Place: Friendship Community Place is a 501c3 Not for Profit that was birthed from the imagination and commitment of Friendship Presbyterian Church. It is a hyper-local neighborhood hub on Chicago’s NWSide designed for multi-use partnerships that promote equity, justice and provides resources and public programming for our neighbors in the building at 5150 and in the wider NWSide community. Our resources include free weekly community meals, a love fridge and small pantry as well opportunities to build skills and capacity through our Kitchen Krewe program. Public programming includes advocacy opportunities, civic engagement and the arts. [Website] [IG]
Hermosa Neighborhood Association: The Hermosa Neighborhood Association (HNA) is a nonprofit advocacy group that strives to provide community engagement opportunities, youth programming, and resources to the families of Hermosa in Chicago. They seek to provide mutual aid and promote the general welfare of our neighborhood through dialogue, empowerment, and direct action. [Website] [IG]
Humboldt Park Resident Action Committee: Organizing for tenants, unhoused community members, and workers in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. [IG]
Humboldt Park Solidarity Network: Neighbor-to-neighbor network offering direct aid, advocacy and operating a free store in the Casa Hernandez Community Space. [IG]
Jefferson Park Forward: An active neighborhood association dedicated to creating a vibrant and inclusive community by driving positive change. [Website] [IG]
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (K.O.C.O.): Kenwood Oakland Community Organization’s vision is to develop new generations of African American leadership that will build stable, viable, and just communities where opportunity is not denied based on race or economic status. Through the sustained engagement of low-income and working families, KOCO develops multi-generational leaders who impact decision-making processes and public policies, improving the quality of life in our local communities. KOCO has been an instrument for grassroots democracy in the North Kenwood and Oakland communities since 1965. [Website] [IG]
Liberate Ward 46: Neighbors in the 46th ward committed to liberation through building strong community care systems. [IG]
Mi Villita: A community org in Little Village with a focus on community, political and economic development among the residents by the residents. [IG]
North Center Neighbors Association – Compassion In Action: The Compassion in Action (CIA) committee was created to ensure the well-being of all neighbors through connecting, sharing and advocating. They care for the community by distributing food, shoveling snow for neighbors and more. [Website]
North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council: The North Lawndale Coordinating Council is a group of North Lawndale stakeholders, including community-based organizations, business owners, elected officials and individuals, that guide comprehensive planning and implementation in North Lawndale. [Website] [IG]
North Spaulding Renters Association: Socialist tenants union organized against M. Fishman & Co. [Website] [IG]
Northside Action for Justice: Northside Action for Justice (NA4J) is a grassroots, member-controlled organization that builds power for low and moderate income people in order to advance the cause of economic and social justice on the north side of Chicago and across the city. NA4J is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic group working for decent affordable housing, quality public education, public services, living-wage jobs, and positive economic development for the benefit of low and moderate income people. [Website] [IG]
Not Me We: Organizing Black & brown, poor & working class folks to grow people power and win resources in South Shore & beyond through tenant unions, mutual aid, youth organizing and more. [IG]
ONE Lawndale: ONE Lawndale promotes Black & Brown unity through various arts, documentation and storytelling projects & mutual aid in North & South Lawndale / Little Village. [IG]
ONE Northside: ONE Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities in Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Ravenswood, North Center, Lake View, and Lincoln Park. ONE builds collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing by developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change. [Website] [IG]
Palenque LSNA: Palenque LSNA is a catalyst for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities and allies to take care of one another and take strategic action for systemic change and a just, resilient, and joyful future. They are a multi-issue community organization, directly serving more than 6,500 residents across the Logan Square, Hermosa, and Avondale neighborhoods of Chicago and impacting tens of thousands more through nationally-recognized issue campaigns and programs. [Website] [IG]
The People’s 32nd: An independent collective of 32nd Ward residents building a more equitable and inclusive community for the many. [Website] [IG]
Pilsen Alliance: Pilsen Alliance is a social justice organization committed to developing grassroots leadership in Pilsen and neighboring working class, immigrant communities in Chicago’s Lower West Side, and advocating for affordable housing, quality public schools, environmental justice, immigrant and workers’ rights. [Website] [IG]
Pilsen Neighbors Community Council: Pilsen Neighbors Community Council serves as a voice in the Pilsen community, advocating for social justice, education reform, healthcare, immigration reform and civic engagement. Through leadership training and coaching, Pilsen Neighbors empowers individuals to enact positive change for themselves, their families and their community. Pilsen Neighbors acts as a facilitator for the community, leveraging their network to find solutions to common issues. [Website] [IG]
PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo): A coalition committed to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support, education, and community engagement in Pilsen and the surrounding area. [IG]
Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E.): R.A.G.E. is a resident-driven association creating tangible solutions and mobilizing residents and resources to restore the Englewood community. [Website] [IG]
RAD Rogers Park: Rogers Parkers rooted in the neighborhood and connected to struggles around the globe. [IG]
Rite to Wellness Collaborative: This Collaborative of the Garfield Park Community Council works to identify, promote, and implement strategies to increase Health & Black Culture Wellness in Garfield Park through engaged cooperative participation, operating a community plaza and roller rink. [Website] [IG]
Something Good in Englewood: Something Good In Englewood, Inc. is a 501c3 non-for-profit organization with several programs focused on increasing socio-economic opportunities for residents at critical ages and stages within the Englewood community. Their primary areas of focus and impact include Supportive Services and Educational Programming, and services range from health and wellness, community cohesion, food pantries, easy access to the COVID-19 Vaccine, and job skills. [Website] [IG]
Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP): STOP builds the power of low-income and working Black residents — in Woodlawn, Greater Grand Crossing, and surrounding neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago — to impact the forces and decisions that affect our lives. They organize communities around preservation and improvement of affordable housing, a Community Benefits Agreement for the Obama Presidential Center, the reopening of shuttered mental health centers and empower students in organizing around the issues they choose. [Website] [IG]
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL): SOUL assists low-income people of color in the Chicago Southland to build power, then subsequently leverage that power to fight for their own interest and liberation. They partner with congregations, people of faith and local community groups, training them in disciplined organizing strategies, to build leadership, impact public policy and legislation, engage in direct action, and hold their public officials accountable to the interest of their communities. [Website] [IG]
Southwest Collective: SW Collective provides an open forum for southwest side residents to voice their concerns; hear new perspectives from their neighbors; learn about existing public resources; and launch economic, educational, and recreational initiatives that bring siloed communities together. [Website] [IG]
Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP): The Southwest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) mission is to build a broad-based organization of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith institutions, local schools and other institutions in Southwest Chicago, which will enable families to exercise common values, determine their own future and connect with each other to improve life in their neighborhoods. [Website] [IG]
Únete La Villita: Únete engages in grassroots organizing, community engagement, political education and policy advocacy to promote accountable community-driven development and affordable housing in La Villita. [Website] [IG]
United Neighbors of the 35th Ward: UN35 is a grassroots, independent political organization to unite & organize poor and working people and advance social and economic justice for all. [IG]
United Northwest Side: An independent political organization of Northwest Side Chicago residents who believe their community deserves politics that work for working people. UWS brings neighbors together to build political power, strengthen our public institutions, and to fight for the common good and material improvements in people’s lives on the Northwest Side and across the city. [Website] [IG]
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