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The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) is a Chicago-based community center founded in 1995 to strengthen the Arab immigrant and Arab American communities in the Chicago area by building their capacity to be active agents for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, its strategies include community organizing, advocacy, education ...
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Arab Americans in Chicago, Illinois. Pages in category "Arab-American culture in Chicago" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Largest Arab-American and Middle eastern enclaves. Chicago – A section of city nicknamed "Little Iraq", Chicago has the largest Iraqi community in the USA. Little Arabia in the city's Northwest side, for example, has many Arab-Americans. [307] Devon Avenue (Chicago) also has Arabs, Iranians and South Asians such as Pashtun Americans.
Abdelnasser Rashid is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 21st district. The district includes the Southwest Side and southwest suburbs. [1] Rashid is the first Palestinian-American to serve in the Illinois General Assembly and is its first Muslim member, along with Nabeela Syed. [2]
Eventually, the dispute was settled in a 1983 Chicago hearing by a judge who deemed that no one had acted unlawfully. [1] The community has steadily diversified to include Muslims of many languages and experiences—all praying side-by-side, with their children, in a brimming mosque that cannot contain them.
By the 1920s Arabs immigrated to Chicago, and political turmoil in the decades following the 1948 creation of Israel brought more Palestinian Muslims to Chicago. Arab families live in Chicago Lawn and Gage Park Neighborhoods. Arab community founded Chicago Islamic Center and Mosque on 63rd. Many Middle Eastern store and restaurant near Mosque area.
The TAP Boyz (an acronym for The Arabian Posse, sometimes Tall Arabian Posse), was a Chicago-based Arab American street gang or self-described "movement" formed on the corner of West 63rd Street and South Kedzie Avenue in 1992. They disbanded in 1999 after losing members to Gangster Two-Six and Almighty Ambrose in the area.
Senior White House officials are planning to meet with Arab-, Muslim- and Palestinian-American community leaders in Chicago on Thursday, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN, as ...