CAIR-Chicago Director of Communications, Ahmed Rehab, recently appeared on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight with Phil Ponce on PBS 11 along with MAS Executive Director, Mahdi Bray, and IFYC’s Umnia Khan to talk about the hot and current Muslim-American issues.

Maaria Mozaffar, CAIR-Chicago’s Legal Advisor met with several representatives from a local university, including the Head of the Chemistry Department, faculty members of the Department, the Dean of Students and members of the Office of Equity and Access to resolve an issue of discrimination involving a Muslim undergraduate student.

Since beginning its Citizenship Delay Project with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), CAIR-Chicago has received word that four of the delayed cases have cleared and these applicants have been granted citizenship status.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed participated in a follow-up strategy planning meeting with ICIRR on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at St. Francis of Assisi.

The CAIR-Chicago team, as a part of national non-partisan Muslim political mobilization effort, held Eidul Adha voter registration drives at major mosques in the Chicagoland Area.

Having returned safely home to his family from his recent mission to Jordan and Iraq where he lobbied for the release of US journalist Jill Carroll, Nihad Awad is now preparing to travel to Chicago next week to address CAIR-Chicago's annual event.

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.

CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator, Christina Abraham, participated in a meeting designed to propose new initiatives to prevent and monitor racial profiling as a part of Governor Blagojevich’s Racial Profiling Task Force.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed took part in the Data Evaluation subcommittee meeting on Monday, January 9, 2006 at 2:00 PM at the James R. Thompson Center.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed attended a Democrats’ Candidate Forum on Sunday, January 8, 2006 at the Islamic Community Center of Des Plaines (ICCD).

CAIR-Chicago was recently contacted by a Muslim woman who participated in an interview for a Green Card for Permanent Residency.

CAIR-Chicago has recently seen a rise in civil rights violations against Muslims who are traveling.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator attended a leadership strategy meeting at the ICIRR office on Wednesday, December 21, 2005.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator attended a press conference on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 held by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

CAIR-Chicago's executive director, Yaser Tabbara, attended a breakfast event hosted by Chicago Police Superintendent, Philip Kline.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Yaser Tabbara and Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham conducted an information session on the Citizenship Delay Project that CAIR-Chicago and AAAN have been working on to address the issue of lengthy delays being experienced by many in the Muslim community.

CAIR-Chicago helped to amicably resolve a situation involving an area public school’s negative portrayal of Islam and Muslims during a presentation on gang violence.

The recent vandalism of the mosque inside of the Kabab Korner restaurant in Chicago’s Greektown is now being investigated as a hate crime.

At a meeting with several community-based organizations last week, including CAIR-Chicago, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s Office offered to file a Congressional Inquiry regarding the citizenship delays of immigrants who appear to be mainly from the Middle Eastern, Eastern European Jewish, and Korean communities.