Content warning: This story contains discussion of hate crime. A week after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, 6-year-old Palestinian-American Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times in his home in Plainfield, Illinois, in an alleged hate crime. On Sunday evening, the First United Methodist Church in Chicago, also known as the Chicago Temple, held.
About 120 people gathered at Fountain Square Sunday to call for a bilateral ceasefire and the release of hostages on both sides of the war in Israel and Gaza. The “Solidarity Vigil for Justice and Peace” was organized by Standing Together, a movement formed by Jewish and Palestinian Israeli citizens in 2015 that later spread.
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The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) hosted its 30th anniversary Annual Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 19, at Hyatt Regency O Hare Chicago, Illinois.
A Puerto Rican transplant, Milagros Bravo was an instructional specialist at Des Plaines Elementary District 62 when she was asked to help set up the district s bilingual program. That was 20 years ago. Now, Bravo, 54, of Vernon Hills is retiring as the district s director of the English as a Second Language, bilingual, and world language programs.