Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

This year HOPE Fair Housing Center, the oldest housing center in Illinois, celebrates its
40th Anniversary. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. chose the Chicago area for the
focus of the first large scale fair housing campaign in the nation. HOPE's
Executive Director was part of that campaign and documented it with photographs
and narratives. Since 1968, HOPE has continued Dr. King's struggle for equality
in housing for all people. This year alone, HOPE has filed more than 225 housing
discrimination complaints. Last year, HOPE settled a landmark housing
discrimination complaint resulting in more than $6 million in new housing for
families who live and work at the Arlington Park Racetrack.

Thanks to you, HOPE continues to be a powerful voice for fair housing that is heard locally, regionally, and across the nation, helping America understand that
racial segregation is one of the defining moral issues of our time.

HOPE didn't get to be the best fair housing center in Illinois because it is the oldest; HOPE got to be the oldest because it is the best.