Don Terry

Wearing lipstick and hoop earrings, hair flowing past their shoulders or piled high, 39 teenage girls from Maria High School walked apprehensively into the Bridgeview mosque Wednesday morning. They were...

For Muslims in Chicago and around the nation, U.S. military action in Afghanistan has heightened tensions between national loyalty and religious identity, between showing support for the United States and...

A few years ago, the Arab-Americans, Arab nationals and Muslims of Bridgeview began a campaign to build bridges over the walls of stereotype and mistrust. They invited their non-Muslim neighbors...

The mothers who take part in Baheia Ahmad's family counseling sessions stopped coming a few days ago. She understands. She too feels helpless. Her own children are overcome by the...

Carrying signs proclaiming "Peace" and "Unity," a coalition of churches and Catholic schools formed human chains around two Southwest Side mosques Friday, standing watch outside as their Muslim neighbors inside...

Zeinah Elayyan prays at a mosque a half-block from her house in southwest suburban Bridgeview, but on Thursday she said she was too fearful to step out her front door...

To make a statement about the resiliency of Chicagoans in the face of crisis, city leaders urged workers to head back to their offices Wednesday, a day after terrorists unleashed...