Founded in 1969, Salsedo Press is #Chicago's only worker-owned print shop. They started out at a conventional business, but in the mid-1980s needed an infusion of capital. The Adrian Dominican Sisters from Adrian, Michigan, loaned each of the six partners $3,000 to become member-owners of the business, providing them the capital they needed and formalizing the worker-ownership of the company. In the early 1990s, Chicago Community Loan Fund, a CDFI and another Adrian Dominican investee, loaned them $175,000 to buy a brand new printer from Germany. Soon they were doing $2 million in revenue a year. Times have since changed for the printing industry, but Salsedo presses on with modernized digital printing equipment that takes up a relatively tiny fraction of their print shop in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago. If you've seen the popular Jenny Beorkrem maps of city neighborhoods, you've seen Salsedo's handiwork. My partner and I have four in our apartment. #workercoop #workerowned #gocoop @neweconomycoalition (at Salsedo Press)