Our mission is to be the unifying federation of Islamic organizations of greater Chicagoland, the leading advocate of Muslim community interests and a catalyst for enriching American society.
Originally published by The Chicago Tribune By Heidi Stevens The children — Muslim, Jewish and Christian — sat crossed-legged, shoulder-to-shoulder Wednesday morning brainstorming ways to
By Husnaa Vhora The Muslim Education Center (MEC) in Morton Grove held an “Empowering the Diverse Community” event on January 29 which brought together an
By Will Jones, Evelyn Holmes and John Garcia Protesters took over airports over the weekend after dozens of people were taken into custody while arriving in the United States
By Elyssa Cherney, Nereida Moreno and Tony Briscoe, Chicago Tribune BBC journalist Ali Hamedani left his native Iran in 2009 with no intention of returning to the land that
By Genevieve Bookwalter, Chicagotribune.com About 500 people packed the basement of the Muslim Education Center Sunday while hundreds more spilled upstairs and outside the building,
The day after Chicagoans shut down O’Hare Airport to force the release of detained refugee families and resist President Trump’s ongoing flurry of executive orders banning refugees and
Local immigrant advocacy groups are upset over President Trump’s ban on Syrian refugees. Calling it a contradiction to the values this country was founded on,
By Chris Hagan, WBEZ Chicago-area Muslims and Arab Americans are anxiously waiting for details on an executive order signed by President Donald Trump Friday that
By Odette Yousef, WBEZ After dramatic protests at airports across the nation, several Chicago-area faith groups spent Sunday strategizing and mobilizing against a move that
Before joining hundreds of demonstrators who flooded into O’Hare International Airport for a second night of protests against a broad migrant ban imposed by President Trump, an
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