Legal Aid Chicago

Legal aid chicago's housing practice group (hpg) ensures that tenants live in decent, safe, and affordable housing that is free from discrimination by providing brief services, negotiation, mediation, and extended representation. Hpg defends residents against unfair or unwarranted eviction and subsidy terminations, enforces tenants' rights, and engages in activities that further the administration of justice.

The immigrants and workers' rights practice group is a multi-disciplinary team that focuses on four areas of legal expertise: employment law, immigration law, human trafficking, and migrant farmworker law. Iwr clients are often low-wage workers, and immigrants, both newly-arrived and longstanding residents of the state. We represent clients seeking unemployment insurance benefits, clients with wage claims, and claims of employment discrimination including sexual harassment, racial and national origin discrimination, disability discrimination, and claims of wrongful termination. The team also represents immigrant survivors of crime and mental cruelty to obtain legal status under the violence against women act, the u.s. Visa process, asylum, and other immigration remedies. The human trafficking project provides victim advocacy and representation to citizen and immigrant survivors of labor and/or sex trafficking. Our migrant project provides direct legal services and outreach to migrant farmworkers, both domestic workers traveling in the migrant stream from texas and other states, and those here on special, short-term agricultural work visas. Our immigration, human trafficking, and migrant projects extend throughout illinois.