Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham represented a Muslim man at a status hearing for an employment discrimination complaint. CAIR-Chicago filed a complaint on behalf of the man alleging discrimination on the basis of his religion and national origin, as well as retaliation for complaining about the discrimination.

From CNN's Glenn Beck to Comedy Central's Daily Show, and from The Weekly Standard to The Nation, America’s political pundits hold wildly varying opinions on almost everything. But when it comes to Islam and Muslims, both ends of the political spectrum are too often equally comfortable with simplistic two-dimensional treatments that end up reducing Islam’s more than one billion followers to caricatures and stereotypes.

On Thursday, July 17, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), in cooperation with other organizations, will co-sponsor its fourth biannual blood drive at the Downtown Islamic Center in Chicago, Ill.

CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham represented a Muslim man at a deposition in regards to a complaint he filed for discrimination by the Chicago Police Department.

CAIR-Chicago Law Clerk Mani Mostofi represented a Muslim man at an infopass appointment with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding his citizenship delay case. The man passed his interview and exam for citizenship in 2006. CAIR-Chicago will continue to represent this man regarding the delay in obtaining naturalization.

The cartoon on the cover of the latest New Yorker magazine depicting Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as militant radicals drew the ire of the presidential candidates Monday and posed the question of how satirical journalism affects voters during an election season.

CAIR-Chicago filed an employment discrimination case against a local county’s department of corrections on behalf of a Muslim man.

Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham attended an appointment with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding the denial of a Muslim man’s attempted application for citizenship.

CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham attended a status hearing on behalf of a Muslim man experiencing a delay in obtaining citizenship

The Illinois Department of Human Rights recently re-instated a discrimination for public accommodation case involving a local Macy's and two men of Arab origin.

CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham represented a Muslim man at an update interview for his naturalization application. The man had been waiting for approval of his application after passing the interview and exam in 2004. An update interview was scheduled for the man after CAIR-Chicago filed a complaint in federal court on his behalf.

CAIR-Chicago PILI Fellow Elisa Jillson attended an interview with the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) regarding a Muslim man alleging discrimination by a local department store.The man was terminated for not showing up for work, although he had given notice to his manager the day prior

CAIR-Chicago PILI Fellow Munsoor Hussain filed a denial of a naturalization application after a Muslim man was denied citizenship for failing to appear at an update interview.

CAIR-Chicago PILI Fellow Elisa Jillson represented a man at an appointment with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to inquire about an appeal the man had filed to the denial of his naturalization application. Jillson was told that the man’s file was not at the local office. CAIR-Chicago will continue to advocate on his behalf to seek out a determination on his appeal.

Barack Obama's campaign recently launched a new Web site called "Fight the Smears," dedicated to dispelling damaging and inaccurate rumors about the Democratic presidential candidate.One so-called "smear:" that he is a Muslim.

A man who was physically attacked after being singled out for his race and religion at work, took his case to court and successfully settled.

Come and join us in the Launch of a National Campaign to register and mobilize Immigrant Voters in order to win full citizenship for immigrants in the U.S.

When Zahir Mian's prayer clock rings to announce the sunset prayer, he politely excuses himself and performs his ritual pre-prayer ablution, unfurls a prayer rug towards Mecca, and prays like any Muslim.Not all followers of Islam, however, would consider Mian a fellow Musli

A former Florida professor who had pleaded guilty to aiding a terror organization was indicted yesterday on criminal charges that he refused to testify before a grand jury investigating whether Islamic charities in Northern Virginia were financing terrorists.

Maybe I'm hyper-jaded or have been in this business too long. But when I learned some of Barack Obama's volunteers kept Muslim women in "hijab" or the traditional Islamic head scarf from sitting behind the Democratic presidential candidate at a campaign rally last week, my irritation was laced with a yawn.