Court Recording and Access to Justice in the Eviction Courts of Cook County

Chicago Reader reporter Maya Dukmasova published two-part story on eviction in Cook County last month. The first part focuses on the relationship between gentrification and eviction and the vulnerability of immigrant populations. The second part examines access to justice problems in the eviction co...
January 3, 2017

An Update from the Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee Co-Chair

Proposing a New Model to Ensure Efficiency in the Courts, Creating a Manual for Practitioners, and More--Lisa Palumbo, Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee Co-Chair The purpose is of the Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee is to work together with stakeholders to create a more fair a...
December 7, 2016

Giving Tuesday is Here!

Today, Tuesday November 29th is Giving Tuesday. Research into individual charitable giving shows that giving is a fundamentally social act. A 2004 study found that our impulse to give is stronger when we see our friends or people we admire donating, and a 2014 Red Cross survey shows that we give wh...
November 29, 2016

We’re Thankful for our Pro Bono Partners

In the run up to #GivingTuesday, we'll be sharing some thoughts from our staff and pro bono partners about working with Chicago Appleseed. For today, here are some highlights from our Spring Event video: Chicago Appleseed Stories from Our Partners.   I do pro bono work for a lot of differen...
November 24, 2016

Hearing Officers in a Consolidated Domestic Relations Division

Three years after our Constitutionality analysis of the child support courts in the Cook County Domestic Relations Division, Presiding Judge Grace Dickler has issued an operations plan for consolidating the division. We are excited to announce that beginning in January 2017, the Domestic Relations D...
November 21, 2016