¡Bienvenido!
On behalf of the board and the members of the Coalición Latinos Unidos de Lake County (CLULC), I would like to welcome you. Established in 1994, Coalición Latinos Unidos de Lake County has served the community in various aspects from networking to providing referrals to social service agencies.
The Latino Coalition also offers scholarship opportunities to Latino students whom are pursuing a higher education degree (Deadline for application: July 31, 2011) Important: View the eligibility requirements before completing and submitting your scholarship application.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Latino Coalition you can simply do so by filling out the membership application and pay a membership fee. And if you'd like to know a little bit about us, please click the other links and view our latest brochure.
As a member of CLULC you will have the benefit of networking with a wide range of professionals from the Lake County area during our monthly meetings which are held every second Thursday of the month.
I thank you for your interest and hope to see you during one of our CLULC meetings very soon.
Carolina Herrera
President
Our next meeting
- Date
- Thursday, June 14, 2012
- Time
- Noon
- Location
- Waukegan Public Library, Bradbury Room
Presentation Summary and Bio
On June 14, John Quintanilla will make a presentation which will help you better understand the legal bases of housing discrimination in Illinois: what is illegal housing discrimination? And what can I do about it when it happens? What are my rights and responsibilities under our Fair Housing laws?
John Quintanilla - Biography
John has been a staff attorney at the Waukegan office of Prairie State Legal Services since 2001; he is a member of the Illinois bar and is bilingual (Spanish). John attended Northwestern University and in 1986 graduated with BA degrees in English and Spanish. After college he worked several years at a legal publisher where he became interested in law, and in 1992 he began at Chicago-Kent College of Law. As a law student John became keenly aware of the need for legal services to the poor when he was introduced by a friend to the Chicago Legal Clinic where he completed an externship and did volunteer work. After receiving his J.D. in 1995 the Chicago Legal Clinic offered John a job as staff attorney, a position he held for 5 years, at CLC’s office in the Pilsen neighborhood, on Chicago’s near west side. While at CLC John was responsible for a variety of cases including domestic violence divorces, chapter 7 bankruptcies, guardianships, adoptions, real estate closings, immigration, and occasionally some traffic cases. In 2000 John joined a friend in private practice in Chicago, where his work focused on real estate closings and family law, and during that time he decided he wished to return to legal services for the poor. Since Joining PSLS, John has been involved in a number of projects. For several years (2003 – 2006) John was a member of Prairie State’s Fair Housing Initiative Project (FHIP), a program-wide project focused on educating the community regarding discrimination in housing. John has also been involved in projects at the Waukegan office, including among others the Health Law, Brief Services, and VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) Paralegal and Senior projects. He also kept busy handling a variety of cases, in particular domestic violence cases under the VAWA grant.
Since summer of 2011 John has been serving as staff attorney for Prairie State Legal Services’ Fair Housing Program for Lake County. The purpose of the program is to provide education to individuals and organizations in Lake County regarding housing discrimination, to provide legal counsel to individuals who may have suffered housing discrimination, to investigate alleged incidents of housing discrimination, and support victims who wish to file discrimination complaints.
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