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Welcome!
This website
was created by the Illinois
Department of Employment Security (IDES) and the Chicago
Jobs Council as a project of the Governor’s
Working Group on Community Safety and Re-entry to bring together
the growing body of workforce resources available to those who
assist ex-offenders.
We hope that the
resources we have assembled will assist frontline, service provider
staff to better understand their clients, work more effectively with
employers, and help their clients access all the resources and supports
they will need to be successful in the workplace.
For the purpose
of this website, we refer to a person with a criminal record as an “ex-offender.”
Of course, this term does not tell you whether a person has spent time
incarcerated, the type of crime committed, whether the person was falsely
convicted, or the final result or disposition of their criminal charges.
Still, because we believe it is the most commonly-used and generic term,
we have elected to use it here for consistency and clarity.
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