CARPLS - Cook County IL Legal Aid Hotline

As Cook County’s legal assistance hotline, CARPLS strives to help lower income individuals address their legal needs in a timely and cost effective manner.

Volunteer and staff attorneys accomplish this mission by providing (1) legal advice and information, (2) brief services to prevent and minimize litigation, (3) prompt referrals to appropriate legal, government and social service programs, and (4) educational and instructional materials to enable clients to address their own legal needs.

By providing these services, CARPLS aims to increase access to justice, to streamline the legal services delivery system, to expand problem-solving options and to increase available legal resources for our clients by identifying gaps in services and advocating to fill those gaps.