Chicago Urban League

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) was founded in 2007 to help African-Americans launch, grow, and sustain businesses. Through personalized consulting, educational programs, and deal-making assistance, the CEI provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to maximize revenue growth, profitability, job creation, and innovation.

The Chicago Urban League Housing Department is a HUD-certified counseling agency as well as a City of Chicago Department of Housing Delegate Agency. We provide low-to-moderate income residents with professional housing counseling assistance through our programs and services.

The Chicago Urban League, through it Workforce Development programs, works to raise African American employment and income levels through job training and placement services, career exposure, career advancement, seminars, coaching and long-term retention strategies.

We help individuals access the skills, knowledge, support and networks they need to enter the workforce and advance in their careers.

The Chicago Urban League operates a full-service employment and training center as well as a career portal for jobseekers and employers. The League has also formed strong relationship and partnerships with local employers and training providers to offer employment and internship opportunities.

The Chicago Urban League is committed to helping emerging African American leaders advance their career paths while building a more diverse leadership pipeline across the city. IMPACT develops and engages culturally competent executives across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

The Policy & Research Department is the ‘think-tank’ of the Chicago Urban League and provides a factual and statistical basis for our policy decisions and programs. The department issues a quarterly newsletter called “Strategies” and manages a research library of the League’s major studies, white papers and updated polling data.