Thank DuPage County Board Members For Voting in Favor of MECCA
UPDATE: The DuPage County Board voted 13-5 this week to grant a special use permit to the Muslim Education and Cultural Center of America (MECCA).
SEE: Chicago Tribune: DuPage County approves mosque near Willowbrook
“I think they made the right decision not just for the Muslim community but for the county and the country. They voted yes for pluralism, they voted yes to strengthened diversity and yes to equal opportunity for all of us. We hope that this decision will have a positive influence on the other pending cases,” CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab told the Tribune.
ACTION: Please call the 13 County Board members who supported MECCA and thank them:
DISTRICT 1 Rita Gonzalez: (630) 456-1792 - rita.gonzalez@dupageco.org Paul Fichtner: (630) 251-7883 - pfichtner@dupageco.org
DISTRICT 2 Jeff Redick: (630)-607-9681 - jredick@dupageco.org Patrick J. O’Shea: (630) 620-8551
DISTRICT 4 JR McBride: (630) 790-1040 - jmcbride@dupageco.org Grant Eckhoff: (630) 510-0660 - geckhoff@dupageco.org Debra Olson: (630) 221-9593 - dolson@dupageco.org
DISTRICT 5 John Zediker: (630) 697-3062 - jzediker@dupagco.org Tony Michelassi: (630) 788-8338 - anthony.michelassi@dupageco.org James Healy: (630) 655-6000 - jhealy@dupageco.org
DISTRICT 6 Robert L. Larsen: robert.larsen@dupageco.org James F. Zay, Jr.: (630) 876-8601 - jzay@dupageco.org Dirk Enger: (630) 588-0344 - dirk.enger@dupageco.org
DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin: (630) 407-6060 - chairman@dupageco.org
For more information, contact Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif at asharif@cair.com, 312-212-1520