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.

Hispanic American Community Education and Services

Also known as HACES.

820 GREENWOOD AVE, WAUKEGAN, IL 60087-5034

Hispanic American Community Education and Services is a nonprofit organization in Waukegan, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

HACES serves Hispanic immigrant families in Waukegan, IL, providing immigration legal services, citizenship/naturalization preparation and classes, benefits enrollment, health navigation, translation, and civic engagement.

Mission

To offer assistance, guidance and education to individuals and families...

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Benefits enrollment: “Immigrant Family Resource Program for providing applicationpreparation and navigation to obtain food, medical and other benefits provided by the IL Department of Human Services”
  • Case management: “HACES case managers work to ensure that immigrant and mixed status families, and other limited English-speaking persons are able to thrive by reducing barriers when seeking public benefits”
  • Citizenship: “naturalization application preparation and navigation, DACA work permit renewal applications and navigation. Citizenship education classes”
  • Civic engagement: “community civic engagement and translation and interpretation”
  • Family reunification: “Family-based petitions allow certain foreign family members of U.S citizens and lawful permanent residents to become lawful permanent residents based on specific immigrant visa guidelines.”
  • Health education: “Our staff provides health education, and health services navigation by offering wellness workshops and taking one-on-one appointments.”
  • Interpretation / translation: “translation and interpretation services”
  • Legal / immigration: “legal consultations to review history and eligibilty to apply, naturalization application preparation and navigation, DACA work permit renewal applications and navigation”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website offers an automatic translation widget only.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: Lake County, Illinois.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 2006. IRS NTEE code P40. Revenue $1M-4.99M. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 38-3725489.

Other organizations in Waukegan

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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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).