Animal Rescues and Shelters in Illinois

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• A Caring Place Humane Society  - No-kill, all volunteer organization in Darien seeks permanent homes for unwanted dogs and cats. Includes adoption details, fostering and volunteering, and fund-raising activities.
• Anderson Animal Shelter  - Private facility dedicated to providing humane treatment to homeless companion animals through direct care, education, and outreach programs.
• Animal Aid Humane Society  - Volunteer-based organization promotes animal welfare through rescue and rehabilitation. Site includes adoption and volunteering details.
• Animal Care League  - Limited admission shelter devoted to homeless cats and dogs. Homepage contains adoption details and a calendar of upcoming events.
• Animal House  - No-kill shelter established to rescue, rehabilitate, and adopt abused and neglected dogs and cats.
• Animal Outreach Humane Society of McHenry County  - Volunteer humane organization providing shelter and homes to abandoned and abused animals.
• Animal Welfare League  - Aiming to provide shelter and care for the homeless and abandoned animals in Chicagoland.
• Anti-Cruelty Society  - Offers adoption and treatment care services to abused and neglected animals in the Chicago area.
• Assisi Animal Foundation  - No-kill, cageless, nonprofit shelter promoting the protection and preservation of animals.
• Benld Adopt-A-Pet  - Registered charity with a mission to rescue abandoned and abused animals throughout Illinois.
• CARE (Community Animal Rescue Effort ) for the Evanston Animal Shelter  - All volunteer organization finding homes for Evanston’s abused and abandoned animals.
• Chicagoland Shepherd Rescue  - Organization specializing in the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of stray German Shepherds.
• Foster Pet Outreach  - Local nonprofit organization aims to offer essential care and adoption services to stray and neglected cats and dogs in Illinois.
• Hinsdale Humane Society  - Private, not-for-profit organization encouraging compassionate treatment of animals. Homepage contains adoption details and resources.
• Homes for Endangered and Lost Pets (HELP)  - All volunteer organization fosters animal welfare through rescue and adoption services.
• Humane Society of Southern Illinois  - Descriptive information on shelter facilities with adoption details, success stories, and news releases.
• Lake Shore Animal Shelter  - Organization established to reduce the needless killings of pets through adoption efforts, education programs, and spay/neuter promotion.
• Metro East Humane Society  - Not-for-profit charitable organization aiming to prevent the cruelty to and suffering of animals through care and medical attention.
• Orphans of the Storm  - Animal shelter providing treatment and humane care services to stray and abandoned cats and dogs in Illinois.
• PAWS Chicago  - No-kill advocacy aims to alleviate pet overpopulation through spaying and neutering.
• Peoria Humane Society  - Features programs and services dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and neglect to animals.
• Petropolis  - All-volunteer nonprofit rescue and adoption organization promoting the shelter of homeless, abused, and abandoned animals.
• Pets in Need  - Nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter devoted to homeless and abandoned cats and dogs in the Illinois community.
• Prairieland Animal Welfare Center  - State-licensed animal shelter centered on the prevention of cruelty and neglect to animals. Site provides information on programs, services, and adoptions.
• Quad City Animal Welfare Center  - Full-service, no-kill shelter providing homes to homeless cats and dogs. Also promotes pet spaying and neutering.
• Quincy Humane Society  - Facilitates programs and services centered on promoting the welfare of abused and homeless animals.
• Red Door Animal Shelter  - Not-for-profit animal shelter catering to the needs of homeless cats, dogs, and rabbits.
• Refuge for Saving the Wildlife  - Nonprofit, no-kill parrot rescue and rehabilitation shelter. Site contains a compilation of success stories and an image gallery of adoptable birds.
• Safe Haven  - Aims to provide temporary homes and medical treatment to adoptable stray, abused, and unwanted animals.
• Second Chance Animal Rescue of Fayette County  - Fosters the bond between humans and animals through education and advocacy.
• South Suburban Humane Society  - Organization established to provide for the animal welfare needs throughout the southern suburbs of Chicago.
• Strays Halfway House  - All-volunteer, registered nonprofit corporation focused on the rescue and rehabilitation of homeless and abandoned animals.
• Tails Humane Society  - Provides treatment care and adoption services to homeless, abandoned, abused, and neglected animals.
• Tails of Hope  - Nonprofit, all-volunteer organization with a mission to provide new homes to pets with terminally ill owners.
• Tazewell Animal Protective Society  - No-kill shelter in Pekin provides care and seeks homes for dogs and cats, and also offers spay/neuter program. Includes adoption details, ways to help, events, hours and directions.
• Touched By an Animal & Cats-Are-Purrsons-Too  - No-kill, volunteer-run organization in Chicago offers help to elderly or disabled persons to keep their companion animals. Includes ways to help, list of adoptable pets, upcoming events and newsletters.
• West Suburban Humane Society  - Volunteer based organization aims to provide a safe haven to homeless and abandoned animals throughout Illinois.
• Winnebago County Animal Services  - Aims to provide rabies control through pet registration tags and adoption services.