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  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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.   […]