Chicago Legal Aid

Chicago Free Legal Assistance is not hard to find.  There are many ways to obtain free legal help in Chicago, including city, state and federal resources, and non-profit legal aid organizations, like the Legal Assistance Foundation(link is external), which FreeLegalAid.com has covered here.  

Law schools typically offer an excellent way to obtain discounted and free legal assistance.  Chicago is no exception, as the University of Chicago Law School offers these clinics:

• Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project(link is external)
• Criminal and Juvenile Justice Project(link is external)
• Employment Discrimination Project(link is external)
• Federal Criminal Justice Clinic(link is external)
• Housing Initiative(link is external)
• Mental Health Project(link is external)
• Social Service Project(link is external)

Northwestern Law School offers other clinics, including the following:

Bluhm Legal Clinic(link is external) 

Children and Family Justice Center(link is external) 

Small Business Opportunity Center(link is external) 

Center for International Human Rights(link is external) 

Center on Wrongful Convictions