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Asian-Americans say they’re proud to see one of their own finally win a seat on Chicago’s City Council, and that the electoral success  was inevitable because their community is growing at a fast rate. Thirty-year-old Ameya Pawar unexpectedly toppled the 47th Ward’s polit

More immigrants to the area are bypassing the City of Chicago completely and moving directly to the northern suburbs, according to a new study by the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The report finds that the foreign-born popul

News of the resignation of Egypt’s thirty-year ruler Hosni Mubarak sent waves of excitement through the Chicago area’s Muslim community as they went to afternoon prayer services Friday.

Egyptian-Americans in Chicago are shocked by the announcement Thursday that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak intends to finish out the rest of his term.

In an unexpected turn of events, a group of Sunni Muslims failed to win approval for a worship center that they have sought to build on a 5-acre parcel of unincorporated DuPage County.

Hundreds of Chicagoans gathered downtown during rush hour on Friday to say that President Barack Obama still hasn’t been forceful enough in telling Egypt’s 30-year president to go. The demonstrators chanted as they held signs and waved Middle Eastern flags across from the Egyptian E

Pace Bus’s paratransit service, a lifeline to elderly and disabled people who rely on public transportation, has had to overcome significant difficulties to access its riders.“In the city, and in a number of the suburbs, too, we're running into a lot of issues as far as vehicles being ab