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.

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Also known as ICIRR.

228 S WABASH AVE STE 800, CHICAGO, IL 60604-2373

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is a nonprofit organization in Chicago, Illinois that serves immigrants and refugees.

ICIRR is a statewide coalition serving immigrants and refugees broadly through policy advocacy, civic engagement and voter mobilization, citizenship promotion, a multilingual family support hotline with referrals and public-benefits enrollment, health-access education, and higher-education navigation.

Mission

TO PROMOTE THE FULL AND EQUAL PARTICIPATION OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES IN THE POLITICAL, CIVIC, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL LIFE OF OUR DIVERSE SOCIETY. FY23 MARKED THE 23RD YEAR OF THE IFRP PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY TO EMBRACE THE DIVERSITY OFILLINOIS' IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES. IN FISCAL YEAR 2023, ICIRR COMMUNITY PARTNER AGENCIES COMPLETED 11,341 INTERPRETATIONS AND PROVIDED 42,390 TRANSLATIONS IN OVER 60 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. A TOTAL OF 40,376 FAMILIES RECEIVED IN-DEPTH SERVICES RANGING FROM ASSISTANCE IN APPLYING FOR MEANS-TESTED BENEFITS TO ADVOCACY AT A FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Advocacy / policy: “Passed pro-immigrant legislation at the state level that provided in-state tuition for undocumented students”
  • Benefits enrollment: “support immigrant access to public benefits. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)”
  • Case management: “Connecting families with reliable and immediate information, referrals to legal, ministry, and social services.”
  • Citizenship: “4,517 APPLICATIONS PREPARED WERE FOR PARTICIPANTS ON THEIR PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP THROUGH THE NATURALIZATION PROCESS.”
  • Civic engagement: “The New Americans Democracy Project is a non-partisan citizen voter registration, education, and mobilization campaign aimed at engaging and building power for the immigrant community.”
  • Education / youth: “Helping immigrant and refugee students navigate and access higher education in the United States”
  • Health education: “IHAI launched in 2011 to build capacity at immigrant serving organizations to aid implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Initiative combines active community education, capacity building, and coordinated...”
  • Legal / immigration: “IT ALSO FOCUSES ON LEGAL SUPPORT FOR DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS ( DACA) RENEWALS.”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Dari, Urdu.

Website in more than one language.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 1993. IRS NTEE code R21Z. Revenue $97,882,081. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 36-3783551.

Other organizations in Chicago

All organizations in Chicago | All organizations in Illinois

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).