On Saturday, January 28, 2006, CAIR-Chicago, with other member organizations of the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI) held a question and answer session on civil rights and liberties at Al-Huda Mosque in Schaumburg.On Saturday, January 28, 2006, CAIR-Chicago, with other member organizations of the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI) held a question and answer session on civil rights and liberties at Al-Huda Mosque in Schaumburg.

What: The Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI) invites all constituents to an informational session on civil liberties and rights with Special Invited Guest, Congresswoman Melissa Bean (D) of the 8th Congressional District.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed, along with other members of the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI), met with the District Director for Congresswoman Melissa Bean on Monday, January 9, 2006 at her district office in Schaumburg.

On Sunday, July 17, CAIR-Chicago and the other organizational members of the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI) held a town hall meeting to discuss the issues involved in the expiring, or sunset, provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. The town hall meeting occurred between 1 and 3 pm on the campus of Loyola University and had greater than 120 attendees in a packed house from a diverse cross-section of the Chicagoland community.

The Chicago chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), in participation with the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI), will hold a town hall meeting with guest speaker, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, to encourage Illinois’ elected representatives to vote “NO” to the reauthorization of the expiring provisions of the Patriot Act.

The Chicago chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), in participation with the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI), held a town hall meeting today with guest speaker, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, to encourage Illinois’ elected representatives to vote “NO” to the reauthorization of the expiring provisions of the Patriot Act.

CAIR-Chicago is a lead organization in the Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI). The CLCI is a grouping of respected organizations in Illinois that each stands firmly in collective opposition to the reauthorization of the sunset, or expiring, provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.