The Logan Square resident ran the Milwaukee Avenue Alliance, a nonprofit with a mission to "reawaken" life on the three blocks of the street by filling vacant storefronts.
Iymen Hamman Chehade, at the center of the controversy over Rep. Marie Newman offering him a job, is announcing this week a run for Congress from the 3rd District.
Marie Newman in Chicago, IL on Sunday, February 4, 2018. (Photo: Christopher Dilts/Flickr)
A Palestinian professor says that newly-elected Illinois Congresswoman Marie Newman promised him a job but backed out of a signed contract after he criticized her positions on Israel. Iymen Chehade has filed a breach of contract lawsuit and a national-origin discrimination claim against the congresswoman. Newman’s campaign dismissed the accusations as “fallacious.”
A former Bernie Sanders supporter, Newman, 57, is regarded as very progressive in the House, including on racial justice issues. She is one of the sponsors of the landmark legislation introduced this week to keep U.S. aid to Israel from being used to detain Palestinian children or demolish houses.