We are thrilled to share a heartwarming success story with you. A community member, whom we value greatly, has successfully obtained a green card.

Yesterday, a group of Muslim leaders from diverse backgrounds, including CAIR-Chicago staff, met with representatives from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

CAIR-Chicago and ACLU-Illinois have partnered up to showcase the importance of knowing your rights as a community member. Join us May 16th from 3:30 to 5:30 at our Downtown Chicago center.

(Chicago, IL, 4/18/2023) - The Chicago Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) strongly condemns the recent incident in which a local town official was subjected to derogatory and hateful comments, including being referred to as a 'suicide bomber', after residents learned of her Muslim faith. 

CAIR-Chicago’s Executive Director, Ahmed Rehab, was featured in monthly newsletter from the WTTW | WFMT Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Employee Resource Group.

CAIR-Chicago, the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, will hold a news conference welcoming the grand jury indictment of Oak Lawn Police Officer, Patrick O’Donnell, in the brutal beating of then 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah in July 2022.  

CAIR-Chicago today said that The Mosque Foundation, one of the largest Mosques in Illinois and the nation and a long-time CAIR-Chicago partner, responded to the massive earthquake that struck Turkiye and Northern Syria on February 6, with a major fundraising campaign totaling $510,000 so far. 

CAIR-Chicago's Staff, along with a selection of Chicago's Muslim leadership of different backgrounds, met with Congressman Chuy Garcia and members of his staff on Wednesday at CAIR-Chicago's downtown Azima Center to discuss the state of civil rights.

The nation’s largest muslim civil rights advocacy organization, today welcomed a hate crime charge for neo-Nazi vandalism targeting an Illinois church.

CAIR-Chicago is joining the 2022 Giving Tuesday Movement that works to promote the concept of "Real Change."

On November 15th, more than two dozen headstones were spray painted with graffiti over the weekend in Waukegan, Illinois.

It’s time for a change: CAIR-Chicago’s 2022 annual event. This is the first in-person in over two years! This year’s theme is “The Next Level.”