Interfaith Leadership Project (ILP) was founded in 1989 by seven local churches organizing to relieve pressures on local families with such issues as park preservation, cleaner and safer streets, and government accountability.

Interfaith Leadership Project is a membership-based community organization of churches, businesses, and other civic institutions in Cicero and Berwyn. ILP's mission is to build better communities and strengthen local institutions by fostering relationships, developing leaders, and deepening civic engagement.

Recent work centers around parent organizing to improve the quality of education for Cicero students, organizing and advocacy for immigration reform that respects and preserves families, advocacy on foreclosure prevention and outreach for citizenship and the 2010 Census.