ACLU of Illinois
180 North Michigan, Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (312) 201-9740
Fax: (312) 201-9760
Email: acluofillinois@aclu-il.org
Website: www.aclu-il.org
- Takes civil rights cases; may provide referrals if unable to take case
- Address legal requests to "ACLU of Illinois Intake Department"
Ashunti Residential Management Services Inc.
4909 West Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois 60644
Phone: (773) 379-6981
Fax: (773) 379-6983
Website: http://www.ashuntirms.org
- Provides residential, medical, support services to qualifying people, including former offenders
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
224 North Desplaines, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: (312) 332-7044
Fax: (312) 332-7360
Website: www.icirr.org
- Provides assistance to recent immigrants; provides referrals to legal, case management, and other organizations
Institute of Women Today
7315 South Yale Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60621
Phone: (773) 651-8372
Fax: (773) 783-2673
Email: IWT7315@aol.com
Website: www.instituteofwomentoday.org
- Operates social services program including women's shelter, health care, job skills training, counseling; provides referrals
The John Howard Association
300 West Adams Street, Suite 423
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 782-1901
Fax: (312) 782-1902
Email: dhoffman@john-howard.org
Website: www.john-howard.org
- The John Howard Association of Illinois provides critical public oversight of the state's prisons, jails, and juvenile correctional facilities. As it has for more than a century, the Association promotes fair, humane, and effective sentencing and correctional policies, addresses inmate concerns, and provides Illinois citizens and decision-makers with information needed to improve criminal and juvenile justice.
- Provides limited direct services to prisoners; monitors conditions within prisons and jails
Roderick MacArthur Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 503-1271
Fax: (312) 503-1272
Website: www.law.northwestern.edu/macarthur
- Litigates on behalf of prisoners
Prisoner Release Ministry, Inc.
P.O. Box 69
Joilet, IL 60434
Phone: (815) 723-8998
Fax: (815) 723-5544
Email: prministry@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.prisonerreleaseministry.com
- Provides post-release services, including job preparation and counseling and emergency food, clothes, and transportation for ex-offenders in Will, Kankakee, Kane, DuPage, Kendall, Grundy, and Cook counties
Safer Foundation
571 West Jackson
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: (312) 922-2200
Fax: (312) 922-0839
- Provides education, employment, and support services to people with criminal records; operates transitional residential centers in the Chicago area
US Department of Justice
- List of free providers of legal services for immigration: http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/probono/freelglchtIL.htm
