Butterfield School second-grader wins CHAD's No Place Like Home
Aryan Sandoval of Butterfield Elementary in Lombard placed first in CHAD’s No Place Like Home contest. Other winners were Tanja Gllafce and Kian Sandoval of Butterfield.
100 guests attend CHAD open house at new Wheaton location
Members of the Wheaton Chamber joined CHAD supporters in celebrating the organization's new office at 531 E. Roosevelt Road in Wheaton. Thank you to everyone for making it such a terrific event!
Providing stability to families
CHAD's "scattered site" philosophy spreads its properties throughout 29 West Suburban communities in DuPage, Kane, and Cook counties.
Building leaders and mentors among today's youth
Youth thrive academically, socially, physically, spiritually and vocationally when their family maintains a nurturing home -- at the same address -- for an extended period of time.
Clarendon Hills teen picks 2012 No Place Like Home winners
Matt Stockmal, an eighth grade student at Clarendon Hills Middle School shakes the hand of CHAD's new housing director, Anita Dierks, while choosing the winners of CHAD's No Place Like Home contest.
Building and maintaining safe, attractive, desireable housing
CHAD builds, purchases, rents, and manages quality housing and offers nearly 400 units at $400 and more below market-rate rent.
Who we are
CHAD is the largest nonprofit provider of quality, affordable housing in Chicago's Western Suburbs, with nearly 400 units spread across 29 communities in DuPage, Kane and Cook counties. Learn why CHAD provides housing with a heart!
Our properties
- Nearly 400 units in 29 communities across DuPage, Kane and Cook counties. CHAD recently expanded in Aurora and South Elgin and opened a state-of-the-art, six-unit community (pictured above) for the disabled in Glen Ellyn.
- Average rent: $550 for a studio to $1,058 for a 4-bedroom house
- Available to households with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area's median income
What's new
CHAD is growing! Four new staff and two board members have joined the organization in the past six months. New board members include Nancy Singer, director of administration for College Church in Wheaton and Nora Collins, a consultant with Grant Thornton. New staff includes Letitia Pugh, front desk coordinator; Rosie Montanez, administrative assistant; Pita Romo O'Donnell, coordinator of fundraising and communications; Anita Dierks, director of housing and Mark Billings, director of development and communications, and Phillystean Miller, property maintenance assistant.
“CHAD made us feel like family. They went the extra mile.”—Gwendolyn H.
Please help provide affordable housing to more than 1,100 people each year.