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A grassroots collective coordinating mutual aid and community support initiatives in Chicago. They organize direct assistance, resource sharing, and solidarity networks while building community power through collective action and neighborhood organizing.

All-volunteer group- Avondale, Chicago.

EMAN: Abolitionist Mutual Aid Network in Edgewater, Chicago

A food based mutual aid project led by the community for the community!

A mutual aid collective building liberation culture and projects in the suburbs of shikaakwa (settler named Chicago, IL).

Logan Square Mutual Aid is here to make helping one another easy. In the face of widespread inequity and an ongoing pandemic, the most effective thing we can do is to be there for each other.

A Pilsen mutual aid group that runs a neighbor-to-neighbor free store and free markets, and takes requests for grocery delivery, prescription pickup and financial help.

Mutual aid network between Austin, East Garfield Park, North Lawndale, West Garfield Park, and West Loop.

We support neighbors in need by providing goods such as groceries, household supplies, diapers, and the like. We also provide advice and resources according to specific requests.

Neighbors helping neighbors in Humboldt Park.

West Town Mutual Aid is an all-volunteer, grassroots group operating in Chicago in Ukrainian Village, Bucktown, Wicker Park, and the surrounding areas.

Working to provide support & relief to our neighbors in Irving Park impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Organize, educate, agitate, liberate! This is a digital community space to share resources & knowledge.

Neighbors help with grocery and medicine pick up/delivery, provide cash assistance for rent and other bills, and share resources for medical care, employment, and other help.

Sharing free vegan and vegetarian meals with anyone who is hungry.

Volunteer group that collects surplus food from grocers and restaurants and gives it out free, no ID required, with harm reduction supplies, twice weekly in Rogers Park, Chicago.

A vacant lot transformed into a vibrant farm in which 75+ refugees grow vegetables in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood.

Sharing groceries in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

A collective focusing on food justice, sustainability & plant-based lifestyles.

A food justice/sovereignty project which seeks to bring ​neighbors and local community members together in a ​collaborative setting, engage in mutual aid, and ​collectively meet our need for fresh, healthy food to be ​freely available and shared.

The Love Fridge is a mutual aid group working to ensure every Chicagoan has access to fresh food by maintaining free community fridges in neighborhoods across the city.

CFSC is a coalition of autonomous mutual aid groups working to reimagine a resilient, sustainable and equitable local food system based on food sovereignty.

Mutual Aid space for the Rogers Park neighborhood. Open hours are on Saturday from 12-2pm

Volunteer group that recovers donated food and gives out free meals and groceries in Humboldt Park, with weekly distributions and grocery delivery.

Chicago nonprofit that works to prevent and end homelessness in Chicago and Illinois through organizing, policy advocacy, legal help, and youth and education programs.

Network of warming centers and emergency shelters providing support during extreme weather.

Organizing to improve the quality of life in East Lake managed buildings across Chicago

Our mission is to build neighborhood justice and grassroots democracy by developing autonomous tenants unions that are welcoming for all.

autonomous yurt-inspired design builds & deploys in support of unhoused neighbors in Chicago

Chicago-based independent news outlet doing investigative and on-the-ground reporting, owned by its journalists and funded entirely by reader donations.

By engaging low-income and working families, KOCO develops leaders who impact public policy and work hard to improve life in local communities.

Community group in Little Village, Chicago, organizing for clean air, safer water, and green space, with food justice and youth organizing programs.

Independent, Black-owned digital news outlet in Chicago publishing journalism, documentary, and culture coverage about Black Chicago.

An art and mutual aid space in a former post office in Rogers Park that hosts free workshops, exhibitions and community events and runs a free store.

Chicago group, founded 1973, that organizes on police accountability, support for people in prison, and immigrant rights, and defends Black and other oppressed communities against repression.

Chicago alliance of artists and activists working toward a world without police and prisons. Runs the Breathing Room, a South Side space for arts, organizing and healing.

Organizes Black, poor and working-class residents in Woodlawn, South Shore and nearby South Side neighborhoods on tenant rights, housing and a community benefits agreement. Formed by a 2024 merger of STOP and Not Me We.

Chicago chapter of Dare to Struggle, an activist group organizing on police brutality, mass incarceration, immigration enforcement and housing.

A neighborhood group on Chicago's Southwest Side that runs food distributions, free baby-gear giveaways, tree planting and street-safety campaigns across eight neighborhoods.

Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ community center in Hyde Park on Chicago's South Side. Offers a clothing closet, food pantry, support groups, housing help, health services and a harm reduction station.

A collective of sex workers and allies providing mutual aid, harm reduction, and community support.

A mutual aid organization providing financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion care in Chicago and Illinois. They work to make abortion accessible to everyone through direct funding assistance and community support networks.

Chicago nonprofit, founded in 1985, that funds and coordinates HIV prevention, care, and housing services and advocates on HIV and housing policy.

Chicago street medic collective, active since 2002. It gives first aid at protests and runs street medic and first aid trainings.

Help us provide warm meals, clean water, basic necessities, and a restored sense of dignity to individuals experiencing homelessness in Chicagoland.

Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago is a Black-led, grassroots organization dedicated to providing direct aid and advocacy for anyone working in the sex industry.

We are a community led bail fund freeing Muslims from pre-trial & immigration incarceration.

Volunteer-run daily mutual aid outside Cook County Jail in Chicago, giving people on release phone calls, clothing, food, rides home, and emergency housing.

Volunteer-run Chicago group, formerly Black and Pink Chicago, that matches LGBTQ+ people in Illinois prisons with pen pals, sends a free newsletter, and supports people after release.

All-volunteer group in Chicago that mails free books to incarcerated people who write in with requests, since 2004. Volunteer hours are held at Theatre Y in North Lawndale.

A Center for survivors of police torture in Chicago. We are part of & support the movement to end all forms of police violence

Chicago campaign, started in 2020 by the Black Abolitionist Network, to cut the police department budget by 75% and put the money into community programs.

Our mission is to create safe space for Native Youth through arts, activism, and education.

RCC is an all-volunteer Chicago based mutual aid organization that seeks to ease the transition of our newly arrived neighbors (refugees, asylees, and others forced to flee their home country) into permanent housing in the Chicago area

Shopping at the Nuevos Vecinos Tienda Gratis (New Neighbors Free Store) is often the first opportunity for new arrivals to replace the clothes and shoes that have served them for more than 4,000 miles.

Casa Al-Fatiha is an autonomous, Chicago-based, sanctuary house for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, people released from detention, and peer supporters.