Full Text of HR0513 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Cabrini Green | 4 | | Legal Aid on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its | 5 | | founding; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Cabrini Green Legal Aid was founded in 1973 by | 7 | | Chuck Hogren with funding from Tyndale House Publishers; the | 8 | | funding was obtained by Bill Leslie, the pastor of the LaSalle | 9 | | Street Church; for 24 years, Chuck Hogren served as Cabrini | 10 | | Green Legal Aid's Executive Director; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Cabrini Green Legal Aid first operated as a | 12 | | general purpose law firm for the residents of the Chicago | 13 | | Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green housing project, providing | 14 | | representation that ranged from advocating for tenants' rights | 15 | | to finding alternatives to gangs for Cabrini-Green youth; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, In 1996, when the Chicago Housing Authority began | 17 | | to demolish the Cabrini-Green housing project, Cabrini Green | 18 | | Legal Aid expanded its mission to encompass the entire City of | 19 | | Chicago, specializing in 3 under-served practice areas: | 20 | | housing, family law, and criminal defense; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, With the modernization of Illinois' Expungement |
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| 1 | | laws in 2003, Cabrini Green Legal Aid started its Criminal | 2 | | Records Program, one of the State's first efforts to help | 3 | | individuals expunge or seal their arrest or conviction records; | 4 | | Cabrini Green Legal Aid opened its Expungement Help Desk at the | 5 | | Daley Center in 2005, which now serves more than 4,000 | 6 | | individuals annually; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, In response to the ever-growing need for legal | 8 | | services, Cabrini Green Legal Aid launched the Client Support | 9 | | Services Program in 2006 to help integrate professional legal | 10 | | and social services to enhance legal outcomes and expand its | 11 | | impact beyond crisis support; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, A celebration of Cabrini Green Legal Aid's 40th | 13 | | anniversary will be held September 26, 2013, at Union Station | 14 | | in Chicago; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 17 | | we congratulate Cabrini Green Legal Aid on the 40th anniversary | 18 | | of its founding; and be it further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to Cabrini Green Legal Aid as an expression of our | 21 | | esteem and respect.
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