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.

Greater Chicago Legal Clinic

17 N STATE ST STE 1710, CHICAGO, IL 60602-3293

Greater Chicago Legal Clinic is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

A Chicago legal-aid clinic providing affordable representation to underserved families in family law, domestic violence, housing, consumer/disability, and environmental matters, including a family-based immigration team handling petitions, VAWA/U visas, naturalization, and deportation defense.

Mission

The organization provides community based legal services and education to the under-served and disadvantaged in Chicago metropolitan areas. Community - Provides access to resources and services that many individuals and families which lack economic stability, are challenged with. If they are unable to work as a result of injury and need help with disability claims, have criminal records that impead job or housing opportunities, or contract disputes hurdles, our attorneys provide representation and advise. Consumer - Help senior citizens and disabled people on a fixed income eliminate their debts without having to resort to bankruptcy.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Citizenship: “naturalizations, deportation defense”
  • Domestic violence services: “Domestic Violence If you or your family members feel unsafe, we can explain how the justice system can help.”
  • Family reunification: “GCLC’s immigration team specializes in family-based immigration assistance, including filing petitions for relatives”
  • Legal / immigration: “GCLC’s immigration team specializes in family-based immigration assistance, including filing petitions for relatives, adjustments, consular processing, waivers, renewals of permanent resident cards, removal of...”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in English only.

Contact

Founded 1983. IRS NTEE code I80Z. Revenue $2,459,394. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 36-3200465.

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).