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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 ...
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.
In the southwest Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, tensions are boiling between Arab-American activists and police. Activists have been showing up at every police and fire commission meeting since the ...
People Nation, Folk Nation, Gangster Disciples, La Raza Nation, Gangster Two Six, Satan's Disciples, Latin Kings The Almighty Saints is a street gang founded in the early 1960s by Polish youth at Davis Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago , but later was largely made up of Hispanics due to the change in the community's ...
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 ...
B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)
MCC Chicago was designed by architect Harry Weese. Construction began in 1971 and the facility opened in 1975. The building is a right triangle shape, is 28 stories high, and has a rooftop exercise yard. [3] Several features make MCC Chicago's design unique from other federal prison facilities.
Arab-American culture in Chicago (6 P) Pages in category "Arab-American culture in Illinois" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.