1969 Several member firms represent local organizations whose members live in the path of urban renewal to ensure that there is community input and that all who are displaced are properly relocated

1972 A member firm represents a large group of south suburban purchasers of defective housing in successful negotiations with the developers to remedy the defects.

1972 As part of its ongoing commitment to continuing legal education, the Committee co-sponsors a conference on the scope and impact of the Jack Spring v. Little decision, which recognized that a lessee's obligation to pay rent is dependent on the lessor's fulfillment of the implied warranty of habitability.

1973 With the Leadership Council as co-counsel, the Committee files Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation v. Village of Arlington Heights, challenging the municipality's refusal to rezone vacant land for the construction of low- and moderate-income, integrated housing.

1974 The Committee is representing a class of over 1200 black South Side homeowners who purchased new homes at inflated prices under land installment contracts, alleging that the developers discriminated against them by exploiting the racially divided housing market.

1978 In Burroughs v. Hill, the Committee represents a group of homeowners and an association seeking to hold HUD responsible for failing to repair and maintain abandoned buildings.

1978 In conjunction with Northwestern's Center for Urban Affairs, the Committee issues a study on the impact of zoning and other land-use regulations on housing for low- and moderate-income and minority families in the Chicago metropolitan area.

1980 On behalf of several fair housing groups, the Committee successfully files an administrative complaint with HUD, challenging DuPage County's use of Community Development Block Grants, and in particular its failure to adequately fund activities that would benefit low- and moderate-income people.

1981 The Committee begins working on projects to address discrimination against people with disabilities. Projects are developed in the virtually untested areas of housing and public accommodations, as well as employment, to establish strong standards for the new Illinois Human Rights Act prohibitions.

1986 The Committee brings an action against a group of private developers and government officials, alleging that federal laws governing the use of rehabilitation funds require the developers to fulfill obligations to low-income minority tenants, and that tenants have been constructively evicted because of the failure to maintain the premises.

1987 The Committee negotiates substantial settlements in seven separate cases against suburban Cook County building owners, management companies, and realtors who deny rentals to families with children.

1993 A group of four fair housing organizations join forces to end the illegal use of only white people as models in housing advertising, and convince numerous developers to integrate their ads.

1994 On behalf of a group of Latino individuals and housing organizations, the Committee brought a major class action housing discrimination suit against HUD and CHA, alleging the severe underrepresentation of Latinos in public housing programs.

1997 A lawsuit filed on behalf of the South Austin Coalition Community Council and a number of home-purchasers alleges that Easy Life Real Estate System, Inc. and Ace Realtors, Inc. bought fire-damaged, abandoned homes in the Austin area, performed minimal cosmetic repairs to them, marketed them to unsuspecting low-income, first time buyers, and then sold the homes at inflated prices, resulting in a rash of foreclosures. A settlement was reached, under which the defendants agreed to pay $1.13 million to the class.

1998 In coalition with the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities and Woodstock Institute, the Committee begins to investigate and advocate on behalf of greater access and affordability of homeowners insurance in minority neighborhoods in the Chicago area. The Coalition filed suit to challenge the refusal of the Department of Insurance to disclose data collected from homeowners insurance companies doing business in Illinois that reflects companies' losses broken down by zip code.

2003 The Committee files Wallace, et al., v. Chicago Housing Authority, alleging that the CHA failed to provide adequate relocation assistance and effective social services to families displaced by public housing demolition, in violation of both federal law and CHA’s contractual obligations. The Court held that the Fair Housing Act requires HUD and public housing authorities to not just refrain from discriminating in housing, but to operate their programs so that they affirmatively further fair housing opportunities.