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Mar. 05

Senator John Nimrod

  Did you know that one of ACF’s former presidents, John Nimrod, was also the state senator of Illinois from 1973 to 1983?  Nimrod was born in Chicago to an […]

Mar. 05

Maher Minyanish

  Did you know that Maher Minyanish, the third-place winner of ACF’s recent 2020 Art Competition, was also featured on Chicago’s ABC television station in 2017?  After Ryan Chiaverini, a […]

Mar. 04

Stephan Karam – Violinist

Did you know that Stephan Karam, an Assyrian-Armenian violinist, self-published his own LP record in 1970, and advertised about it in the July/August issue of The Assyrian Star magazine?  In […]

Feb. 25

Qais Al-Sindy

Did you know that in 2006, the talented artist, Qais Al-Sindy, created an art exhibition called Letters Don’t Burn, to bring to the world’s attention the fact that the library […]

Feb. 20

Helen Schwarten

Chicago’s Assyrian community owes a debt to the many Assyrians who came to the United States in the early 20th century.  Helen James Schwarten is one of those people.   […]