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September, 2007
January 1994–"Planning begins for the Chicago Empowerment Zone. City officials hold meetings with more than 200 community, government and business leaders.
June 30, 1994–"Chicago submits its application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
December 1994–"Mayor Richard M. Daley announces that Chicago will receive $100 million in federal Empowerment Zone funds and $37...
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September, 2007
On Bradley Road in north suburban Lake Forest, cars and trucks rumble off of Interstate 94 and into one of the five industrial parks and large office buildings that stand on all four sides of the Rondout Elementary School.
Less than a quarter mile south, more than 50 businesses hum with activity along a mile-long asphalt road snaking through the Bradley Business Park.
A nearby enclave...
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September, 2007
Early in the afternoon of March 16, Illinois' primary election day, voters trickled into the polling station in the basement of the Community Church of Wilmette. Though it was chilly outside, the weather wasn't nasty enough to keep everyone at home; election judges said 125 of the precinct's 600 registered voters had cast ballots by about 1 p.m., with the big rush expected after work hours in the...
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September, 2007
Barack Obama pulled off an even more wide-ranging victory in March's Democratic primary than Carol Moseley-Braun did in the 1992 Democratic primary. Obama gained a greater share of votes from black wards in Chicago and every other major geographic area in Illinois than Moseley-Braun did. And, while black voters in Chicaog came to the polls at a higher rate in Moseley-Braun's primary victory,...
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September, 2007
Hales Franciscan High School is a lead character in the story Jack Ryan has told on the campaign trail for the last year.
Ryan, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, makes sure voters know that he gave up a prosperous investment banking career to teach history and literature at the all-boys, all-black Catholic school on Chicago's South Side. And he frequently uses images of the school to...
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September, 2007
Manal El-Hrisse prays in the basement of the Mosque Foundation in southwest suburban Bridgeview. within hours of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, El-Hrisse said, a woman shouted at her, "I wish I had a gun. I wouldshoot you right now." Many local Arabs say the backlash continues. (Photo by Mary Hanlon) On a chilly Friday evening in November, after prayers at a local mosque, Mamoun Alrifai...
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September, 2007
Although often portrayed as a new and foreign element, Arabs have been a part of Chicago since the first large wave of Arab immigration to the United States occurred between 1899 and 1921, according to Louise Cainkar, a fellow with the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute.
The vast majority came from the region known today as Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied...
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September, 2007
Around 6 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 5, Salim Yusef was jolted awake to pounding at the front door. "I heard voices saying, –˜Come on, open up!'" said Yusef, a 22-year-old permanent U.S. resident of Palestinian origin. He had been asleep on the living room sofa in the south suburban home he shares with his brother and sister-in-law.
It was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service....
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September, 2007
The 2000 census counted nearly 45,000 Arabs in the six-county area, with some of the highest numbers on Chicago's North and Southwest sides and in the southwest suburbs Bridgeview, Oak Lawn and Burbank. However, estimates from community-based experts put the number at 150,000–"one of the largest concentrations nationwide.
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