ChicagoCo-op.net

There is an opening at The Waterside Co-op.

For more information, please visit our website.

Waterside Coop

NEXT GATHERING
What do we eat? Do we choose to buy local or organic? Which is better?
Should we join a food co-op? How do we share our food with those we
are living with? What if we decide to grow our own food?

Please join us for the next Network of Intentional Communities meeting
where we will host a roundtable discussion about food issues and how
communities deal with them. We will share best practices that other
communities have found around making food choices and also work to
brainstorm new ones. This will be an opportunity to connect to various
intentional communities in Chicago and also learn a little bit about
our food system. Anyone who is interested in community is welcome. We
are also hoping to discuss some logistics like what people want out of
this group and the creation of a webpage.

Sunday, January 10th, 4-7pm
Casa Lucitas
902 W. Margate Terrace, Apt 1B
Chicago, IL 60640

WATERSIDE COOP
The Waterside Coop, a community focused on the environment, peace and
justice, located in Lincoln Square has an opening. Check out their
website for more information. http://www.beyondtoday.org/coop/

INTERESTED IN HELPING?
If you are interested in helping plan events for the Network of
Intentional Communities, respond to this email and we will let you
know when the next planning meeting is.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Does your community have an opening? a cool event coming up? Respond
to the email and we can email it to everyone.

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Stone Soup Ashland house is currently seeking new members for the fall. Our lease year starts October first. We are 19 people passionate about joy and social justice.

Interested? Please contact Rajya for more info at (773) 506-2465 or via email at MemberhipAshland@StoneSoupCoOp.org

The HUB Housing Cooperative in Marshall Square/Little Village currently (Spring ‘09) has a couple units (1BR or 2BR) available for sale.

For photos and more information please look here, or contact Abraham or Annie of LivingRoom Realty at 312.226.3020.

A New Housing Cooperative is Taking Root in Chicago!

Bluestem Cooperative is designed to be an affordable community of homeowners.  We wish to build on our existing diverse community of individuals and families who support one another, share resources, and act together on our vision of a just world.

We are looking for at least 2 – 3 more households to join our group.  Each of the member households will occupy individual apartments and will share the ownership and management of the property.  There is a lot of work involved in starting a new cooperative.  All members are expected to actively participate in the development and operation of the cooperative.

Initial share prices are projected to be between $20,000 and $30,000.  We are working to keep monthly costs between $1,000 and $1,400 per apartment.

Bluestem is structured as a limited-equity cooperative in an effort to maintain permanently affordable housing for future residents.  The value of each share can increase over time, but this equity increase is restricted by the by-laws.

To learn more about Bluestem, please contact Jennie at jellynn@yahoo.com or 773-879-5584.

UPDATE: Our unit has been filled. Feel free to contact us if you’d like to be added to our waiting list.

Our cooperative will have a 1 bedroom unit available in the coming months. Find out more.

Come spend a lazy late summer afternoon with all your friends and friends of friends at the Logan Square Cooperative’s annual Open House. See what’s growing in our garden, have a snack, talk about cooperatives, see a hallway art show art show, and we’ll all enjoy each other’s company!

Saturday September 13, 2008

4 – 7 PM

3934-3946 W. George St. Chicago 60618

Please click on our invite to RSVP.

This morning Julie Peterson and I met at the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park to bring this new incarntion of ChicagoCoop.net into existance.  Julie had a huge salad and I had an excellent omlette.  Anyway, enough about us, what about this site?  We have some plans for next steps and would love for you to be a part of them.  Here’s what we’re thinking:

• We need to invite organizers of Chicago co-ops to contribute (setting up logins for each one).
• We need to craft an email with basic instructions for interested folks.
• We need to have a face to face event where we can walk people through what we’ve done so far and get them started as contributors (administrators, actually).
• We need an image to replace that green monster up there.
• We need to either set up a new email list or resurrect the previous Chicago co-op email list.  Until we have the formal list, we’ll just send an email to the people we know are interested and everyone to reply-all so we’ll have an informal list for the time being.
• After all that, we’ll need to promote the site.

This is the latest incarnation of the Chicago Co-op dot Net website, a resource for housing cooperatives in and near Chicago.  Please let us know if you’d like to participate!  All are welcome.