CHICAGO (WLS) -- Employment opportunities for people with disabilities continue to be in short supply. One solution that is being promoted by Centers for Independent Living (CIL) is a temporary ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Access Living has been helping Chicago's disabled community since 1980, providing services for everyone to live full and rewarding lives. The cross-disability is governed and staffed ...

On the credenza in Marca Bristo’s sunny downtown Access Living office are a Barbie doll in a wheelchair, a photograph of one of Bristo’s two grown children and awards for her equal rights work on ...

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CHICAGO (CBS)-- Marca Bristo, one of Chicago's and the nation's most prominent advocates for people with disabilities, died Sunday morning. Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago, which Bristo founded ...

As a community organizer, Beto Barrera’s job is to motivate others. So the manager of community development at Access Living in Chicago surrounds himself with photos and posters that inspire him. “You ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has gifted a Chicago nonprofit $8 million. Access Living said it's the biggest gift it's ever received from an individual donor in its ...