Publications

Every child and family deserves to feel welcome, safe, and valued regardless of their actual or perceived immigration status. Unfortunately, anti-immigration policies, rhetoric and uncertainty are increasingly impacting the overall well-being of families across Illinois. In this Guide, you will find cost-friendly, culturally and linguistically informed resources in the areas…

Last Updated on 3/7/2025Investments in our state’s Latino communities are investments in everyone that calls Illinois home. And policies that promote equity for Latinos in education, housing, and immigration, are essential to the promise of making Illinois the “best state to raise a family.” Latinos and Latino immigrants have been…

A comprehensive guide for immigrant communities about their rights as tenants, accessible housing resources, and landlord responsibilities and obligations.

Latinos can influence and even determine electoral outcomes. But this will only happen if Latinos show up at the polls and vote. This brief offers a snapshot of Latino voters in Illinois. How many are there, how old are they, what is the rate of voter turnout, and what are…

In Illinois, growth in the Latino population between 2010 and 2021 ensured that the state’s overall population did not decline more dramatically than 1%. Two-thirds of Latinos in the state were born in the United States. 72% of adults and 96% of those under 18 years of age are US…

The Latino community is not a monolith. Accordingly, Latino wealth should be examined from all angles, taking into consideration Latinos’ differentiating factors, such as racial diversity, immigration status, migration timing, geography, generational differences, and how these factors correlate with wealth-building. The Latino Policy Forum and Brookings Institution partnered to examine…

More than 50% of Illinois’ Latino population lives in the suburbs. The Latino Policy Forum, in partnership with The Metropolitan Planning Council and UIC’s Great Cities Institute, produced a new analysis of challenges and opportunities facing Latinos living in suburban communities.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-cnWS6mSY

Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic, including “long COVID,” has created extensive and profound negative impacts on populations across the US AND devastated the health landscape in many ways, including over 96 million diagnosed cases leading to over one million deaths in just two years. At the same time, COVID has created…