Safe and Healthy Living: A Resource Guide for Immigrant Families, Providers, & Advocates
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…
2025 Springfield Agenda
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…
Housing Rights for Immigrant Tenants
A comprehensive guide for immigrant communities about their rights as tenants, accessible housing resources, and landlord responsibilities and obligations.
Latinos in the Suburbs: Challenges & Opportunities
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
SOL: Immigration
The sense of fear in immigrant communities, particularly among undocumented immigrants, continues to rise now that Donald Trump is president. Throughout his campaign and into his first weeks in office, Trump consistently uses xenophobic rhetoric, which has given rise to an anti-immigrant climate not seen in the United States in…