For more than a decade, Mohammed Alqadhi watched the Mosque Foundation transform a slice of Bridgeview into a thriving Muslim enclave as families in search of an Islamic place to pray bought up the modest homes around the green-domed house of worship.

As part of our outreach program, CAIR-Chicago will visit three mosques every Friday throughout the month of January and early February 2006.

1/26/06 – A Muslim man received permission from a state dentist licensing committee to take his clinical exam.

Popular Muslim-American comedian and activist Azhar Usman will emcee CAIR-Chicago's annual event next Saturday February 4th at the Sabre Room in Hickory Hills.

CAIR-Chicago took part in an engaging question & answer dinner session with Congressman Dan Lipinski on Thursday, January 26, 2006 hosted by the Arab American Democratic Club at Nikko’s Restaurant in Bridgeview.

Sixteen provisions of the PATRIOT Act were set to expire on December 31, 2005. After a very heated debate, Congress extended the expiring provisions until February 3, 2006. Congress is now getting ready to vote on renewing the Act.

The Chicago chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), joins The Civil Liberties Coalition of Illinois (CLCI) in inviting Congresswoman Melissa Bean of the 8th district in educating her constituents about the US Patriot Act.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed participated in the data evaluation subcommittee for the Governor’s Racial Profiling Taskforce.

CAIR-Chicago’s Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed attended an electoral training retreat in Mundelein, Illinois on January 20 and 21.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed attended the Midwest Voting Rights Act Summit sponsored by the ACLU-Illinois on Friday, January 20th, 2006.

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.

As part of our outreach program, CAIR-Chicago will visit three mosques every Friday throughout the month of January 2006.

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.

A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced that it is sending a delegation to Iraq to call for the release of American journalist Jill Carroll who was abducted January 7th while on assignment for the Christian Science Monitor newspaper.

We have a new tactic in the struggle to understand Muslim World -- laughter, a U.S. State Department representative tells comedian Albert Brooks in the movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," which opens in Chicago this Friday.

CAIR-Chicago Director of Communications Ahmed Rehab will present in a fireside chat organized by Northwestern University's Muslim Cultural Student's Association's 'Islamic Awareness Week' on the commonalities of the three Abrahamic faiths.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that it has joined a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a secret National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that targeted American citizens without court authorization.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for the immediate release of American journalist Jill Carroll abducted January 7 while on assignment for the Christian Science Monitor newspaper in Baghdad.

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.