What: Radio Islam DinnerWhen: March 3, 2007 at 6pm

For the second year in a row, CAIR-Chicago received a grant in 2007 from the Chicago Bar Foundation for its civil rights work on behalf of the indigent Muslim community in Chicago

What: DePaul University's Islamic World Studies Program, PBS and WETA, with sponsorship from DePaul's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences' Global Voices series and The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, would like to invite you to the second Town Hall Meeting in the Islam: Image versus Reality series, which will prescreen clips from several of the films to be shown in the America at a Crossroads series produced by WETA, the Washington, D.C. PBS station.

CAIR-Chicago's Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham and Staff Attorney Heena Musabji attended the "Investing in Justice" program

What: Presentation on the Basics of the Islamic faith: its history, sacred texts, fundamental laws and common misconceptions. The event is part of the church's adult education program

What: CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: LEBANON SUMMER OF 2006 (A Lecture with Sami Hermez)

Dozens gathered in a lecture hall at DePaul University's College of Law to hear Sami Hermez discuss the culture of violence in southern Lebanon. Hermez discussed the impact of Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006.

CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Coordinator spoke at the Islamic Foundation School in Villa Park for Malcolm X Day

What: DePaul University Non-Violence and Social Justice TEACH INTopic: Islam, Pluralism and Democracy in America and the West.

CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Heena Musabji presented at the DePaul College of Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic training titled, “Newer Practitioner Training on Basic Immigration Topics.”

What: "Getting to Know Muslim America"

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed attended a membership meeting for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)

What: Friday Sermon (Khutbah) Who: Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director

CAIR-Chicago's 3rd Annual Event, held last Sunday evening, was a stunning success both in the numbers and diversity displayed.

CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Coordinator, along with attorneys Abdullah Salah and Abdul Karim Pigott, participated in the “Lawyer in the Classroom” program

CAIR-Chicago Volunteer Attorney Rima Kapitan filed amended charges of discrimination with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR).

WASHINGTON -- The departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun training employees to better understand and protect the civil liberties of American Muslims, Sikhs and other minority ethnic and religious groups in the wake of Sept. 11.

Attorneys for Mohammed Salah, who was acquitted of racketeering charges last week, have vowed to keep working to clear the name of the Bridgeview man deemed a terrorist by the federal government and to help his family lead a normal life.

Moments after learning that Muhammad Salah was cleared Thursday afternoon of federal charges of helping to fund terrorism, Abubakr Meah rushed out of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview grinning and waving a thumbs-up to a passing vehicle.

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) as a member of the Coalition to Protect People’s Rights, an alliance of over 20 organizations and individuals united to protect citizens from civil liberties and human rights abuses, is announcing a press conference in response to the Salah / Ashqar verdict today.