Protected: A History of Legal Aid Chicago

The federal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) recognized that free civil legal services were essential to winning the war on poverty. In 1966, grants were awarded to two Chicago legal aid organizations, later merged to form the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and now known as Legal Aid Chicago.

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Enjoined HUD from implementing regulations that would have relieved it of obligations to homeowners experiencing financial distress.

Passed in 1987, the Immigration Reform and Control Act allowed non-citizens residing in the United States before January 1, 1982, the ability to apply for permanent residency. Legal Aid Chicago’s Immigration Project, located in Pilsen at the time, completed hundreds of applications. 2.7 million individuals eventually legalized under the program.

Lawsuit alleging that CHA had engaged in de facto demolition of units by allowing them to deteriorate to the point where they were uninhabitable resulted in consent decree that led to the creation of new housing development.

The Court held that Social Security must consider a spouse’s residual functional capacity in determining whether he or she is disabled and eligible for disability benefits.

Jury awarded almost a million dollars in damages and attorney’s fees in a class action suit filed against two fraudulent cosmetology schools.

Split decision from appellate court, which affirmed public housing authority’s right to terminate voucher-holder’s assistance after she pled guilty to violent criminal activity she did not commit, spurred Cook County Public Defender to train its lawyers on the civil collateral consequences of criminal convictions.

This case was the first to apply and enforce the 2006 Illinois Mortgage Rescue Fraud Act, a statute which outlawed fraudulent foreclosure rescue deals.

Tenants who prevail on a counterclaim under the CRLTO may recover reasonable attorney fees for prosecuting that counterclaim.

Reversing housing authority’s administrative decision to terminate, without pre-deprivation hearing, rental assistance to voucher-holder who, despite all best efforts, failed to secure new housing before moving papers expired.

In four consolidated cases we obtained a district court decision requiring HUD to reform and strengthen its nationwide program protecting surviving spouses from foreclosure.

The Court enforced statutory duty of Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) to evaluate eligibility for all benefits unless the applicant declines a specific benefit in writing.

Affirmed that landlord waived right to pursue eviction action by knowingly accepting rent after learning about alleged violation, even if landlord did not intend to waive this right.