CAIR-Chicago is thrilled to announce the successful approval of asylum for one of our Afghan clients who fled persecution following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

CAIR-Chicago is pleased to announce its participation in the 2023 Parliament of World’s Religions conference, which will be held from August 14 – August 18 at McCormick Place in Chicago. 

Today, CAIR-Chicago welcomed the removal from judicial duties of Cook County Judge William Hooks over his alleged racist remarks about Middle Eastern men during a January meeting and his subsequent improper contact with prosecutors.  

 The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), a chapter of nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned antisemitic remarks reportedly shouted during a high school soccer game. 

CAIR-Chicago is excited to announce an asylum case success story from our civil rights department.

(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, 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. 

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), in collaboration with the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Representation (CAARPR), and the Rainbow Push Coalition today called on the Illinois State Police to complete its investigation into the three Oak Lawn Police officers who beat 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah on July 27, 2022. 

Four factors stand out for us in our assessment of instances of Islamophobia: content, intent, extent, and context.

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

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

CAIR-Chicago condemns the alleged Islamophobic harassment of a Loyola University student on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line.