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Funding the Transit We Need and Deserve with the NITA Act
The Northern Illinois Transit Authority will transform the future of transit in the Chicago region. Learn how our organizing helped make it happen.
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Expanding Coverage for Mental Health Care with HB1085
House Bill 1085 will expand access to mental health care for millions of people in our state. Learn how our organizing helped make it happen.
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2025 Victory Snapshot
As we close out 2025, The People’s Lobby has so much to celebrate. This year proved once again that when we fight together, we win—and we’re building the lasting change our communities deserve.
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Funding the Transit We Need and Deserve with the NITA Act
The Northern Illinois Transit Authority will transform the future of transit in the Chicago region. Learn how our organizing helped make it happen.
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Expanding Coverage for Mental Health Care with HB1085
House Bill 1085 will expand access to mental health care for millions of people in our state. Learn how our organizing helped make it happen.
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Illinois Legislature Passes Bill Creating Statewide Office of Public Defense
After more than a year of organizing, the Funded Advocacy and Independent Representation (FAIR) Act has passed the state legislature and is heading to the Governor’s desk! This legislation addresses the serious civil rights crisis caused by the state’s underfunding of public defense, leaving people who have been accused of crimes (especially rural, Black, and Brown folks) without quality legal…
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UC Berkeley Labor Center confirms: “Gig drivers are getting a raw deal”
A first-of-its-kind analysis of the wages of app-based passenger and delivery drivers in Chicago reveals that gig drivers struggle to make ends meet, earning less than the city’s minimum wage. The report by the UC Berkeley Labor Center comes as rideshare drivers are increasing their demands for the City Council to urgently pass the Chicago Rideshare Living Wage Ordinance, sponsored…
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Chicago rideshare drivers win $250k outreach fund in 2025 city budget
When the City Council approved Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget on Monday, the 85,000 people who drive for Uber and Lyft in Chicago got something they’ve been fighting for for years: funding to start a worker outreach program. This $250,000 will fund multilingual, multimodal workers’ rights education outreach to rideshare drivers and other gig workers. The program will include information…
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Illinois continues to close corporate tax loopholes
Illinois’ 2024 budget includes hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate tax loophole closures, including the retailer’s sales tax discount. Our work over the course of many years laid the groundwork for this win, and our allies in the Fund Our Futures coalition pushed it over the finish line in 2024. This will lead to hundreds of millions of dollars…
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We choose our fights by determining which issues matter most to our members and conducting strategic analyses to determine the power we need to build to win on those issues.
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The People’s Lobby
Forcing Private Insurers to Cover Mental Health Care
After winning the passage of HB1085, which will raise insurance reimbursement rates for therapists, advocates continue to build power to get people with private insurance the care they pay for. At a press conference on February 9, State Rep. Lindsey LaPointe and State Sen. Karina Villa united with mental health practitioners and patients to force…