Financial Solutions for Your Community

Our mission is to equalize economic power and to fight poverty by improving financial literacy and providing access to credit and savings services for our members. We are working to create and maintain an accessible, full-service federal credit union organization, which is owned and managed by its members.

Checking Account

SSCFCU offers a share draft/checking account. It is $50.00 to open. Member must have a share account balance of $100.00 at the time the account is opened.

Youth Accounts

It is never too early to start saving. Young adults between the ages of 7 & 17 can open their own savings share account with a minimum deposit of $5.00.

Low or No-cost Savings Account

SSCFCU offers a savings/share account that is only $50.00 to open, inclusive of a one-time-only $10.00 membership fee. The monthly minimum balance requirement is only $50.00. 

Small Business Savings & Checking

SSCFCU offers small business savings & share/draft checking accounts for businesses within our field of membership. Member businesses may open a savings account for $100.00 

Invest in Your Community

With your help, we can create a healthier and more prosperous community, increase job opportunities, help people to buy homes, and start and expand local businesses.

Your investment helps keep money circulating in your neighborhoods and contributes to the building of a better financial future for our children.  Help us reach and exceed these goals.

Invest in Your Community

Frequently Asked Questions

A credit union is a cooperative, not-for-profit financial institution organized to promote thrift and provide credit to members. It is member-owned and controlled through a board of directors elected by the membership. The board serves on a volunteer basis and hire’s a management team to run the credit union. The board also establishes and revises policy, sets dividend and loan rates, and directs certain operations. The result: members are provided with a safe, convenient place to save and borrow at reasonable rates at an institution which exists to benefit them, not to make a profit.

Yes. All savings accounts are insured up to $250,000 by the NCUA, the National Credit Union Administration, an agency of the federal government.

Membership in South Side Community FCU is open to individuals or businesses on Chicago’s south side, from 22nd Street on the North to the city limits on the South and from the Lake on the East to Western Avenue on the West. You can live, work, worship, attend school or belong to an organization that is within this boundary area.

What the South Side Is Saying...

Our members enjoy great service and personalized attention from our staff, and have shared their reviews of South Side Community Federal Credit Union on Google.

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