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man sitting in wheel chair

Listing: Adapted Clothing and Shoe Vendors

Selected list of vendors providing fashionable adapted clothing and shoes. Contemporary attractive fashions are available.

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Listing: Accessible Fitness Centers and Accessible Pools

Each of the centers below provides an array of health, fitness, and sports programs for people with physical disabilities.

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Listing: Free and Low Cost Computer Classes

Listings for free and/or low cost computer classes.

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Listing: Agencies for Housing Resources

A listing of housing options for people with disabilities looking for accessible housing. Agencies also serve the homeless.

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What is Fluid Restriction?

Fluid Restriction means that you can only have a certain amount of liquid each day. Sometimes people with certain medical conditions can require changes to their diets that affect the amount of liquids they take in every day. This type of diet change is called a “Fluid Restriction”.

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People of various abilities painting

Listing: Artists and Disabilities

This collection of websites and community resources features a spectrum of art and people with disabilities who are creating inspirational, beautiful, amazing, and provocative works of imagery and creativity.

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man getting into an accessible van

Listing: Accessible Cars, Vans, Rental Vans, and Modification Vendors

A listing of vans, accessible cars, hand controls and vehicle modifications for moblity. The vendors listed below sell, rent, and adapt new and used vehicles for people with disabilities including hand controls, pedals, van lifts, and other automobile accessible adaptations.

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Listing: Adaptive Sports Resources

A list of adaptive sports companies, organizations and venues, to assist people with a disability to engage in recreational sports or sports fitness while expanding their social network.

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Picture of a man in wheelchair going up a ramp into a bus

Listing: Transportation Options in the Chicago Area

This list for transportation options, within the city of Chicago and metropolitan areas, offers a complete line of public accessible trains, special transit buses and specially equipped vans that provide curb-to-curb service for persons unable to use the general public routes. There are additional options for private taxis, medicars, and transportation for medical transport.

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Listing: Housing and Food Assistance

These resources are to assist people who are homeless, in transition, looking for a home, in need of food assistance and have limited or no funds to do so, and need assistance in gaining hope again with others help in learning a trade and having a place to live.

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