Welcome to The Hub Homepage!

 

In late 2003, residents of the Edgewood apartment building, home to a community of cyclists and an important hub of bike activism in Chicago, learned that their building was being sold for condos.

In October of 2003 the idea to form a housing cooperative with the intent to acquire a building was born.
The mission of The Hub Cooperative:

• To provide affordable, adequate, safe and sanitary housing accommodations for persons of low and moderate income on a cooperative basis.

• To build a community that will:

• actively promote social justice at home, in the neighborhood, and around the world, beginning with opposing discrimination based on race, national origin, sexual identity, disability, age, religion, or other protected class;

• conserve, sustain, and replenish the natural environment, starting by replacing auto storage areas with greenery, living space, and bicycle workspace and storage;

• rely on human power and minimize fossil fuel use, thus building, supporting, and participating in our walkable, livable urban community; and

• work together towards promoting these values within our Co-op and in the surrounding community, by understanding and educating others.

• To create a supportive community that grows together, shares resources, ideas, and talents, and creates an environment of social life and activism.

• To be a force which constantly strives to increase the liveability of our neighborhood and to work together with community residents, institutions, organizations, and government to benefit the area in which the Cooperative resides and to serve as a model for future initiatives
Update 2005: The Hub has a building!

After a year-long search, the Hub found a home, located at the junction of Marshall Blvd (2950 W) and 24th Boulevard in the Marshall Square neighborhood.

Financing was procured via the Chicago Community Loan Fund, with legal assistance provided by cycling attorney Mike Wasserman.

The members moved into their new home in the Spring of 2005.
 

Hub meetings, early 2004

 

 
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