Rotating credit associations (susu / partner systems) — Chicago status unresolved

CTL-E-1372 · Institution · other · undocumented for Chicago

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Informal ROSCAs are well documented across the Black diaspora as seed capital for homes and businesses, but no Chicago-specific documentation was located; marked Unresolved pending oral-history or archival research.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-054; source research type(s): informal_finance.

Sources

Hossein (U. Toronto Press, 2024); Black Enterprise (2026)
Weems, Black Business in the Black Metropolis (1996)

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