Jacob B. Handelman enjoys a passion for helping people prepare for the future, making communities safer and giving families a chance to own a home instead of renting. He was an editor of the Loyola Law Journal, received the AmJur award for obtaining the highest grade in Trusts & Estates, loves inspecting dilapidated buildings and envisions how repairing them will improve problematic neighborhoods. For many years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel Jacob prosecuted owners of Drug-Houses, worked with the Chicago Police Department, aldermen and neighborhood community groups. Jacob later worked with the City’s Troubled Buildings Initiative and the Community Investment Corporation to turn around distressed condominium buildings. Jacob has renovated scores of affordable homes and as an attorney represented many corporate, family and individual clients. He is on the Avodah Chicago Advisory Council, Board of Directors of the Dearborn Realtist Board and taught over 300 members of the community how to be a City of Chicago court-appointed receiver.