Uptown People's Law Center

from their website:

UPLC’s constituency is the people of the Uptown neighborhood, the poor and neglected throughout the Chicago area, and prisoners in Illinois. We work to improve people’s quality of life through sound, community-oriented lawyering and by leveraging the law to effect social change.

Our clients are of all races and ethnicities. Many are immigrants, most are poor. The steady erosion of government support for poor people and the cycle of deprivation, alienation, and incarceration have increased the need for an organization like UPLC.