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Legal Aid: Changing Lives one Case at a Time

July 21, 2011

This feature from WGNtv.com in Chicago tells the story of a single mom with a child in college and a five-year old who was helped by Legal Aid in Chicago when faced with the termination of electric service, an electric bill of over $5,000 and threatened eviction and loss of her Section 8 voucher.

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