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About Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice

Chicago Appleseed promotes social justice and government effectiveness by identifying injustice in our community, investigating its causes and finding effective solutions.

We focus our efforts on three key areas: Criminal Justice, Court Reform & Judicial Accountability, and Community Justice.

Some of our more recent accomplishments include:

– Successfully negotiated the end of videoconferencing in bond court.

– Created an ongoing court watching program at the Cook County Criminal Courts building.

– Contributed to the decades-long effort to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.

– Published and continually revised the Chicago Tenant-Landlord Handbook.

– Collaborated with the Egan Coalition for Payday Loan Reform to enact payday lending legislation.

Learn more at www.chicagoappleseed.org