Following are a few of the thousands of community
wealth-building models that can be found in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia.
Illinois
Amstead Industries (Chicago, IL)
www.amsted.com
Anixter (Chicago, IL)
www.anixter.org Bethel New Life (Chicago, IL)
www.bethelnewlife.org Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation (Chicago, IL)
www.bickerdike.org
Campaign for Sensible Growth (Chicago, IL)
www.growingsensibly.org CEDA Community Development Fund (Chicago, IL)
www.cedaorg.net
CommunityCollab (Chicago, IL)
www.communitycollab.org
Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago, IL)
www.cnt.org
Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University (Chicago,
IL)
www.luc.edu/curl
Central Grocers, Inc. (Franklin Park, IL)
www.central-grocers.com Certified Grocers Midwest, Inc. (Hodgkins, IL)
www.certisaver.com
Chicago Community Land Trust (Chicago, IL)
http://egov.cityofchicago.org Chicago Community Loan Fund (Chicago, Illinois)
www.cclfchicago.org
Chicagoland Green Collar Jobs Initiative
(Chicago, IL)
www.greencollarchicago.org
Chicago Lighthouse (Chicago, IL)
www.chicagolighthouse.org Citizens' Lighthouse Community Land Trust (Evanston, IL)
www.citizenslighthouse.org/aboutus.htm
Community Energy Cooperative (Chicago, IL)
www.energycooperative.org
Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council (Chicago, IL)
www.chicagomanufacturing.org
Co-op Markets (Chicago, IL)
www.coopmarkets.com
East St. Louis Action Research Project (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)
www.eslarp.uiuc.edu First Community Land Trust of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
www.whpdevelopmentcouncil.net/CLT/FCLT.htm Great Cities Institute, (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci
Greater Southwest Community Development Corp. (Chicago, IL) www.greatersouthwest.org
Green Exchange (Chicago, IL)
www.greenexchange.com
Growing Home (Chicago, IL)
www.growinghomeinc.org GROWMARK, Inc. (Bloomington, IL)
www.growmark.com Herbst, Lazar, Bell, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
www.hlb.com Highland Park Illinois Community Land Trust (Highland Park, IL)
www.hpiclt.org Hispanic Housing Development Corporation (Chicago, IL)
www.hispanichousingdevelopment.com
Illinois Facilities Fund (Chicago, IL)
www.iff.org Irwin W. Steans Center (DePaul Univ., Chicago)
http://cbsl.depaul.edu
Kennicott Brothers (Chicago, IL)
www.kennicott.com Local Economic & Employment Development Council, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
www.leedcouncil.org Martin & Bayley (Carmi, IL)
www.martinandbayley.com
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Near West Side Community Development Corporation (Chicago, IL)
www.nearwestsidecdc.org
Parksite Group (Batavia, IL)
www.parksite.com Prairie Farms Dairy Inc. (Carlinville, IL)
www.prairiefarmsdairy.com
Qumbya Cooperative (Chicago, IL)
www.qumbya.com Resurrection Project (Chicago, IL)
www.resurrectionproject.org Rock Island Housing Authority (Rock Island, IL)
www.riha4rent.org Seminary Bookstore Cooperative (Chicago, IL)
http://semcoop.booksense.com
ShoreBank (Chicago)
www.shorebankcorp.com
Swedish American Health System, (Rockford, IL)
www.swedishamerican.org Thresholds (Chicago, IL)
www.thresholds.org/home2.asp TOPCO Associates LLC (Skokie, IL)
www.topco.com/about.htm The Tribune Company (Chicago, IL)
www.tribune.com True Valley Company (Chicago, IL)
www.truevaluecompany.com
Tutor/Mentor Connection (Chicago, IL)
www.tutormentorconnection.org
Woodlawn Organization (Chicago, IL)
www.thewoodlawnorganization.org

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