Richard Wheelock

Rich began work at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago in 1984, serving first as a staff attorney at the Northwest Office (1984-88) and later at the Uptown Office (1988-90).  He was promoted to Senior Attorney in 1988 and transferred in 1991 to LAF’s downtown office to work in the Housing Law Project where he developed a broad base of legal expertise and experience in housing matters, including public housing.  Rich was promoted to Supervisory Attorney of the Housing Law Project in 1996, and has received awards from tenants and legal organizations for outstanding advocacy in housing, including the 2000 Tenant Champion Award from the Metropolitan Tenants Organization, the 2001 Grau Outstanding Housing Advocate Award from the Lawyers Committee for Better Housing, and the 2006 Jerold S. Solovy Equal Justice Award from LAF.  Since 2000 Rich has been a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School teaching a seminar on poverty and housing law.