cream city collectives hosted the mathilde anneke infoshop, the milwaukee screenprinting collective, the ccc gallery, and other groups that shared the space for meetings and events. it opened with a storefront in october 2006. the infoshop was named after the german radical mathilde anneke, one of the forty-eighters who founded the first feminist newspaper in the united states in milwaukee. it hosted a lending library which contained thousands of books, primarily non-fiction titles on anti-authoritarian radical politics. there was a substantial collection of anarchist and anti-authoritarian books for sale, as well as free literature. discussions, speaking events, workshops, pot lucks, shows, dance parties, dinners and other events were frequently hosted at the space. it was shut down on october 31, 2012.