This page is updated periodically with coverage of Legal Action Chicago court proceedings, policy victories, and other announcements.
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- 07/17/26: Legal Action Chicago’s staff attorney Leah Levinger quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business regarding Logan Square tenants suing landlord in a first case under anti-gentrification ordinance
- 07/09/2026 – Leah Levinger also quoted in The Real Deal coverage of the lawsuit
- 07/10/26: Legal Action Chicago’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider featured as a guest on WGN9 news discussing and promoting Low-Income Discount Rate programs (LIDRs)
- 06/24/2026: Legal Action Chicago’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider featured in NBC 5’s coverage of Kidd V. Pappas, which held that Cook County’s property tax sale process resulted in unconstitutional wealth stripping of former homeowners
- 4/10/26: Legal Action Chicago’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in the Collinsville Daily News regarding Illinois-American Water Company’s new request for a rate hike
- 07/17/26: Legal Action Chicago’s staff attorney Leah Levinger quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business regarding Logan Square tenants suing landlord in a first case under anti-gentrification ordinance
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- 12/18/25: Legal Action Chicago’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in The TRiiBE about the City of Chicago’s plan to sell $800 million in unpaid water bills to third-party debt buyers
- 12/10/25: Supervisory Attorney Lawrence Wood quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times about landmark decision – in a case brought by Legal Action Chicago – holding Cook County’s property tax sale process resulted in unconstitutional wealth stripping of former homeowners
- Executive Director John Bouman also referenced in an article in The Real Deal about the same subject
- 12/4/25: Legal Action’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times regarding ComEd’s new discount rate program, which Legal Action Chicago successfully advocated for earlier in 2025.
- 11/21/25: Legal Action Chicago’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in Law360 describing Illinois HB 1312, which Legal Action Chicago helped to draft in part.
- 9/4/25: Director John Bouman interviewed by the Asset Funders’ Network about Legal Action’s successful campaign to pass SB 1738, which increased Illinois’ post-judgment exemptions for the first time in 20 years.
- 7/7/25: Coverage of Legal Action’s historic class certification win in its long-running lawsuit against Cook County and its Treasurer over the property tax sale.
- 6/20/25: Daniel J. Schneider recognized in Block Club Chicago as part of efforts – ultimately successful – to defeat the passage of an unconstitutional “snap curfew” ordinance targeting Chicago’s youth.
- 6/19/25: Legal Action Chicago mentioned by the Chicago Reporter in an article about HB 3352, the “coerced debt” bill passed by the General Assembly following advocacy by Legal Action and The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence.
- 5/6/25: Director John Bouman interviewed by Inside Philanthropy.
- 2/26/25: Legal Action’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times in an article about its newly-filed lawsuit with the Project on Predatory Student Lending against student loan servicer Navient.
- 2/21/25: Former Legal Action fellow Psalm Brown publishes essay in the Yale Law Journal stemming from his public housing-related fellowship with our agency
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- 12/3/24: Legal Action’s Of Counsel attorney Daniel J. Schneider interviewed for ABC 7 piece about Peoples Gas’ low-income discount rate program.
- 11/1/24: Legal Action attorney Lawrence Wood quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times in an article about various lawsuits – including one from Legal Action – against the City of Blue Island, Illinois over their water shutoff and billing practices.
- 10/26/24: Legal Action attorney Daniel J. Schneider shouted out in POLITICO’s Illinois Playbook and elsewhere for receiving the National Consumer Law Center’s 2024 Rising Star Award
- 10/13/24: Legal Action Chicago’s briefing in the Illinois-American Water Company rate case is quoted in a lengthy op-ed in the Central Illinois newspaper the News-Gazette
- 9/23/24: Legal Action board member Jordan Matthews, a partner at the firm Jones Day, is recognized as a notable local Black leader by Crain’s Chicago Business
- 9/6/24: Legal Action attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in the Chicago Crusader regarding the upcoming implementation of gas utility discount rates Legal Action Chicago helped obtain in 2023.
- 4/25/24: Legal Action attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in the local outlet Block Club Chicago about the sudden closure of several upscale grocery stores and corner stores, and potential implication under the WARN Act.
- 4/12/24: Following a press conference, Legal Action attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in a Chicago Tribune story about SB 2933, which would make it illegal in Illinois to report most types of past-due medical debt to credit reporting agencies like Experian.
- 3/1/24: Legal Action attorney Daniel J. Schneider quoted in a story about the “Bring Chicago Home” referendum and efforts to keep it on the ballot.
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- 12/14/23: Coverage of the Illinois Commerce Commission’s decision to cut the size of Commonwealth Edison’s rate hike.
- 12/4/23: Coverage of the Illinois Commerce Commission’s decision to adopt Legal Action Chicago and Community Organizing and Family Issues’ low-income discount rate proposal for gas utility customers.
- 11/17/23: Coverage of court decision Legal Action Chicago’s Lawrence Wood obtained to enjoin the City of Blue Island from shutting off dozens of mobile home park residents’ water just days before Thanksgiving.
- 6/26/23: Crain’s Chicago Business publishes an Op-Ed piece by Legal Action Chicago Director John Bouman on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Tyler v. Hennepin County and the racialized effects of Cook County’s property tax sales
- 3/26/23: The Chicago Sun-Times quotes Legal Action Chicago Staff Attorney Dan Schneider extensively in an article about self-repossessing cars
- 2/7/23: The Chicago Sun-Times publishes an Op-Ed piece by Legal Action Chicago Director John Bouman about a proposed increase in aid to Illinoisans who are disabled and elderly
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- 12/19/22: Coverage of the Bell, et al. v. Pappas, et al. case filing by the Cook County Record
- 12/16/22: Coverage of the Bell, et al. v. Pappas, et al. case filing by WBEZ
- 12/15/22: Director John Bouman interviewed on WTTW for their show Chicago Tonight about the Bell, et al. v. Pappas, et al. case
- 12/15/22: Front-page story in the Chicago Tribune about the filing of the Bell, et al. v. Pappas, et al. case
- 12/15/22: Coverage of the Bell, et al. v. Pappas, et al. case filing by Fox-32 Chicago
- 8/16/22: Coverage of the Ramirez, et al. v. LexisNexis Risk Solutions case by the Associated Press
- 8/16/22: Coverage in Law360 of the Ramirez, et al. v. LexisNexis Risk Solutions case, where Legal Action Chicago is serving as local counsel
- 7/25/22: Supervisory Attorney Lawrence Wood interviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times regarding the recently-announced settlement with the Chicago Housing Authority in the Olver, et al. v. Chicago Housing Authority case
- 7/13/22: Staff Attorney Dan Schneider interviewed by the Chicago Sun-Times regarding the Overland Bond class action
- 2/24/22: Legal Action Chicago mentioned in an opinion piece on reforming storage unit auction laws by Paul E. Kantwill, a longtime consumer advocate and the Executive Director of the Rule of Law Institute at Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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- 1/11/21: Legal Action’s Lawrence Wood is profiled in the Buffalo News