Litigation Director Kevin Vodak recently resolved citizenship delay cases for American Muslims in Chicago.

Litigation Director Kevin Vodak recently resolved citizenship delay cases for American Muslims in Chicago.

Today, the City Council of Chicago approved a resolution drafted by Alderman Ameya Pawar of the 47th ward that condemns attacks of violence and hate against minority community and helps initiate measures to promote tolerance.

Join us on Sunday, September 16, 2012 at Moraine Valley Community College for a 5k run or a one mile walk - and spend a day helping save a life.

Although the hysteria regarding Peter King's hearings has died down, the Rep. from New York still poses a threat to the American Muslim community.

Interns participated in the rare opportunity of getting to meet various professionals and had hands-on workshops in their respective fields of interest. The CAIR-Chicago team each organized an Immersion Day for interns, focusing on their respective departments' industry.

A grave site in the Muslim section of Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park has been defaced for the second time in two weeks.

United Coalition of national and local Syrian-American and Muslim-American organizations joined by Chicago family members of those Killed spoke at a press conference held at the CAIR-Chicago office, on August 27, to discuss steps to end the bloodshed in Syria.

CAIR-Chicago announced today that local and national Syrian and Muslim American leaders, joined by affected Chicago families who have lost loved ones, will be holding a press conference to discuss steps to end the bloodshed in Syria.

That skewed ratio reveals the ultimate Orwellian truth in all of this: in the United States, all terrorists get equal attention, but some get more equal attention than others.

Mitt Romney's mistakes during his visits to the UK, Israel, and Poland will take their toll as Presidential elections approach.

Mitt Romney's mistakes during his visits to the UK, Israel, and Poland will take their toll as Presidential elections approach.

CAIR-Chicago would like to thank and congratulate its summer 2012 interns for being a spirited, dedicated, and driven team of budding professional activists.

Today the media's silence repeats itself with Burma, where systemic ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnic group is taking place to the yawns of an indifferent world.

On Tuesday, August 21, CAIR-Chicago and RefugeeOne held a press conference to speak out against and spread awareness about the human rights violations currently taking place against Rohingya Muslims in Burma / Myanmar.

CAIR-Chicago held a protest downtown condemning hate and Islamophobia and it's media department gave numerous interviews addressing the recent desecration of a Muslim man's grave in Evergreen Park, IL.

(CHICAGO, IL, 8/20/2012) —The Chicago office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) and RefugeeOne are hosting a press conference to speak out against and spread awareness about the human rights violations currently taking place against Rohingya Muslims in Burma / Myanmar.

On Friday, August 17th, CAIR-Chicago along with an interfaith and interethnic coalition of diverse community organizations united to protest hate and Islamophobia in downtown Chicago.