Advocacy Updates: Elections in Chicago
04.04.23Access Living friends and allies, Today’s Chicago city runoff election is critical for the future of our disability advocacy. If...
Illinois DRS Disability Employment Survey Now Open
03.31.23If you live in Illinois and you use DRS services, there is now an online Needs Assessment Survey. This survey...
Advocacy Alert: Support Illinois College Students with Disabilities
03.24.23Access Living friends and allies, We need your help to support students with disabilities who are entering a college or...
Webinar: Disability Opposition to Assisted Suicide
03.23.23Join Access Living's Healthcare Policy Analyst Neelam Dhadankar and Healthcare Community Organizer Ryan McGraw from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m....
URGENT: Fight Retaliation in Illinois Nursing Homes
03.23.23Quick action link: Send an email to your Illinois State Representative and State Senator. It’s no secret that retaliation against...
Advocacy Updates: Plow the Sidewalks Ordinance Introduction Tomorrow
03.14.23It’s here! The Plow the Sidewalks ordinance will be introduced in Chicago’s City Council by Alderman Gilbert Villegas tomorrow. As...
Action Alert: Illinois Civil Rights Bill
03.14.23Access Living friends and allies, If you live in Illinois, we need your help today! HB 2248 is a critical...
Accessible Public Safety Webinar: A Pathway Forward
03.09.2343% of people with disabilities are arrested at least once by age 28. And of course, racial disparities are involved....
Urgent Illinois Action Alert – Witness Slips Needed
03.08.23Right now, we need your help to move several important disability bills through the Illinois legislature. Friday is an important...
Access Living Issues Statement on Choate Transformation Initiative
03.08.23The State of Illinois announced this morning that it has begun taking steps to move residents with intellectual/developmental disabilities out...