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Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF) provides low-cost, flexible financing and hands-on technical assistance to community development organizations for:

• affordable housing
• economic/commercial development
• social service/nonprofit facility initiatives

CCLF supports challenging projects that will help revitalize low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and suburban communities throughout metropolitan Chicago--aiding families and communities along the path toward economic stability, prosperity, and sustainability.

Whether CCLF finances a big part of a small project, or a small part of a big project, our loans make the critical difference.

See CCLF and Executive Director Calvin Holmes in action: Watch the video!

Whistler Crossing in Riverdale, Illinois

WHAT'S NEW

CCLF RELEASES NEW SUSTAINABLE BUILDING GUIDE!
Co-written by CCLF staff member Mark Fick, go here to learn more about the guide, or download "A Guide to Building for Sustainability" here. (PDF)

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NEW OPPORTUNITY FINANCE POLICY BOOK AVAILABLE NOW
The Opportunity Finance Network's new publication, The NEXT American Opportunity: Good Policies for a Great America inludes an article on shared-equity homeownership that was co-authored by CCLF's Calvin L. Holmes and Mark Fick. Read the article here.

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CCLF AWARDED NEARLY $1 MILLION FROM CDFI FUND!
CCLF will receive a Financial Assistance award frm the US Treasury's CDFI Fund to support the preservation of at-risk affordable rental housing in Cook County through their work with The Preservation Compact. Read more about the award and the CDFI Fund here.

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CCLF: PART OF THE CITY OF THE YEAR
Fast Company magazine names Chicago "U.S. City of the Year." CCLF Executive Director Calvin L. Holmes is profiled in the article.