One of the main ways the ACLU of Illinois works to protect civil liberties and civil rights is through litigation. Litigation remains one of the fundamental tools with which our adept legal team fights for equality and civil rights throughout the state. This section of our website documents the cases we’re working on now and those we’ve handled in recent years.
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We have joined with a number of national and local advocates in challenging policies of two large landlords in Cook County, Illinois that automatically reject applicants for...
We represent a young person housed at the Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center in a challenge to conditions at the facility. Each year, Franklin County JDC...
We represent five Black and Latino Chicagoans in a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and City of Chicago seeking to end CPD’s practice of racially...
In January 2020, the General Assembly passed the Pretrial Fairness Act, historic legislation eliminating Illinois’ unjust and ineffective system of money bail – which ACLU...