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Listing: Legal Firms
This listing of legal firms is to assist in all areas of access, housing rights, and disputes for people with a disability in Chicago and neighboring areas including organizations such as Access Living and Equip for Equality that advocate for civil rights of all.
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Disability Owned Business Program
This link to the IL department provides business owners a discount with the DOBE or business enterprise program
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National Council on Disability
The National Council on Disability is an independent federal agency that helps develop government disability policies, such as the original Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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American Association of People with Disabilities
This is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan, cross-disability organization in the US and is dedicated to the goals of the ADA. AAPD’s initiatives aim to increase the political and economic power of people with disabilities.
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Listing: Financial Support Services
Financial support services is a list of resources offered from federal and state resources to help people with a disability afford a comfortable life.
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Listing: Grants for Kids
This is a list of resources for financial support in specific areas of travel, mobility aids, educational scholarships and found in the form of grant money for children living with a disability or have a parent with a disability.
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Listing: Meal Assistance Services in Illinois
Meal service agencies help people get meals when they are not able to cook themselves, such as in recovery, elderly, or people with a disability.
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Listing: Housing and Food Assistance
These resources are to assist people who are homeless, in transition, looking for a home, in need of food assistance and have limited or no funds to do so, and need assistance in gaining hope again with others help in learning a trade and having a place to live.
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Listing: Home Personal Assistance Resources
This listing of Illinois resources is to help people with disabilities and those over 60 find assistance at home with the daily activities that they could use assistance with such as meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, and light chores. Some of the resources offer financial assistance or reduced rates to accommodate the financial constraints that are often a consideration.
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Listing: Advance Directives forms for health choices - IDHP and POLST
This listing of advance directive resources and considerations is for the family and care providers to assist in decisions and considerations for nearing the end of one's life and their well being, estate, and other management decisions relating to health. Power of Attorney (POA), Living Will, guardianship, and declaration of mental health. POLST forms.
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