Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (Chicago)

2935 W DEVON AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60659-1555

Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (Chicago) is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

FREE serves Jewish immigrants and refugees from Eastern Europe in the Chicago area with refugee/immigration aid, social services, a foodbank, Hebrew school and youth education, and Jewish cultural and religious programming.

Mission

Assist Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe and their families...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Case management: “F.R.E.E. HELPS EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES WITH THE MYRIAD OF ARRANGEMENTS NECESSARY FOR A SUCCESSFUL MOVE.”
  • Cultural programming: “Around the Year Heritage Programs ranging from simple services to elaborate holiday celebrations and attracting from 20 to 800 at a single Holiday event.”
  • Education / youth: “The FREE Hebrew schools, Bar and Bas Mitzvah preparation classes and youth clubs are an integral part of our youth education program.”
  • Food assistance: “BUBBY FIRA FOODBANK”
  • Heritage language: “The FREE Hebrew schools, Bar and Bas Mitzvah preparation classes and youth clubs are an integral part of our youth education program.”

Languages

Services delivered in Russian.

Website in English only.

Communities served

Eastern European Jewish.

Service area: Greater Chicagoland area.

Contact

Founded 1979. IRS NTEE code P840. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2023. EIN 36-2822431.

Other organizations in Chicago

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).