Cases Closed by 1997 Legal Services Corporation Recipients


					Income						Brief		Extended		Total
	Family		Housing		Maint.		Consumer		Other		Service		Service		Closed	PAI
	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	%	Cases	Cases
Illinois

West Central Illinois Lgl Aid	797	68	140	12	61	5	52	4	114	10	916	79	248	21	1,164	41
Cook County Lgl Assist.	816	13	1,898	30	1,175	19	1,264	20	1,185	19	5,837	92	501	8	6,338	383
Land of Lincoln Lgl Assist	3,868	35	2,782	25	1,421	13	1,920	17	1,190	11	8,202	73	2,979	27	11,181	1,170
Prairie State Legal Svcs	4,885	37	3,398	26	1,388	11	1,717	13	1,703	13	10,613	81	2,478	19	13,091	1,384
Lgl Assistance of Chicago	2,395	8	7,242	25	10,633	37	3,392	12	5,370	18	25,098	86	3,934	14	29,032	1,675

Totals for State	12,761	21	15,460	25	14,678	24	8,345	14	9,562	16	50,666	83	10,140	17	60,806	4,653

Other Cases include cases in the Education, Employment, Juvenile, Health, Individual Rights, and Miscellaneous categories.
Brief Service includes Counsel & Advice, Referrals after Assessment, Cases with Insufficient Merit, Clients Withdrawing, and Changes in Eligibility.
Extended Services includes Court Decisions, Agency Decisions, Negotiated Settlements (with and without Litigation), and Other case closures.
(For further information about case closing definitions, please refer to the LSC Case Service Report Instruction Handbook.)

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April 30, 1998 | Back to List |