School functions as a world hub.
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. When Ayah Allam walks through the busy hallways of Maine East High School wearing an Islamic headscarf, she doesn't stand out from the crowd. The school, which draws students from Niles, Glenview, Morton Grove and Park Ridge, functions as a world hub, with students from 50 nationalities. Many arrive every year from foreign countries, and more than 70 percent speak a language other than English at home, according to teacher Barbara Englebert. As the United States commemorates the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, this tremendous diversity tends to create tolerance towards all groups, including Muslims, …
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Day-long event begins with a memorial service.
A memorial service for first responders to the 9/11 assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon kicked off a day of activities to commemorate the 10th anniversary, and focus on our communities and our future at Maine East Sunday. Related: Reclaiming 9/11 as day of hope.
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Community organizations come together for a day of service to honor heroes and victims of tragedy.
Hundreds of people attended HopeFest 2011 Sunday to honor the heroes of 9/11, remember the victims of the devastating attacks and pay tribute by serving their communities. HopeFest, an event sponsored by three area United Methodist Church congregations, started at 7:30 a.m. with the arrival of a 200-pound steel beam that was once part of the World Trade Center in New York at Maine East High School in Park Ridge. The beam, which has been donated to the Village of Park Ridge, will be put on permanent display at an as yet undetermined location. Related: Photo gallery of HopeFest. Throughout the day volunteers helped with blood drives and donated blood at two sites, participated in family-friendly CPR and disaster response/relief classes, …
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7:13 am on Tuesday, September 13, 2011
It was truly a day of hope. Thank you for your article. May we continue that spirit of working together for peace and justice for all. more ›
The concept of triumph outweighed the memories of tragedy in Morton Grove's remembrance of the terrorist attacks Sunday.
The sky-blue backdrop was eerily reminiscent of the 100 percent clear tragic morning exactly 10 years previously. And yet the windup to the day was radically different. While a somber remembrance prompted the Village of Morton Grove’s Patriot Day 9/11 Commemoration Sunday morning outside the American Legion Post 134 headquarters, a message of triumph and positivism was the theme of the day. Several hundred Morton Grove residents packed rows of bleachers to overflowing as honor guards from the Legion post and the police department framed the 45-minute ceremony with pomp and circumstance, around speakers led by U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Village President Daniel J. Staackmann. But no matter how regal the ceremony or the identity …
On a sun-splashed morning, just as it was on Sept. 11, 2001, the community of Morton Grove came together to remember both tragedy and triumph.
A crowd of several hundred turned out for a 45-minute ceremony Sunday morning commemorating 9/11. The event took place outside of the Morton Grove American Legion hall. To read more about Morton Grove's 9/11 ceremony click here.
Patch teamed up with HuffPo to create national snapshot of community reactions.
The attacks of Sept. 11 affected every person in this country. Patch has teamed up with The Huffington Post to create a snapshot of those reactions nationwide. Today The Huffington Post launched a mosaic of photos and captions — more than 900 of them — from each Patch site coast to coast. Each photo tells the story of an individual, family or community group and how the events of Sept. 11 impacted them. Morton Grove Patch expanded our photo contribution into a full story about the Muslim faith after Sept. 11. You can see our full Sept. 11 anniversary coverage here. Browse through the full gallery here.
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One local recalls the events that changed our nation.
Today we remember the events of Sept. 11, events that undoubtedly changed our nation and world. We asked readers to share some of their stories and experiences of that day, 10 years after the worst terrorist attack against the United States. Here is one resident's recollection of Sept. 11: Morton Grove resident John Ruberry - "I left my home on Lincoln Avenue in Morton Grove for a short run that Tuesday after a 20 mile run on Sunday in preparation for the Chicago Marathon. The air was still, there was not a cloud in the sky on that balmy day---we had the same weather here that New Yorkers and Washingtonians did on 9/11. WXRT news informed me of the attacks--I was running with a Walkman--just before I turned around at Lehigh. I left for …
5:41 pm on Sunday, September 11, 2011
I feel as though we need a new word. "Terrorist" is too flattering for people who committ cowardly barbaric acts like those of 9/11. The word needs to describe the pod scum in terms which are sufficiently pejorative to taint the pondscum appropriately. more ›
Members of Religious Leaders Acting Together for Equality (RELATE) issue a joint public statement in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Religious communities and leaders in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago joined all in the U.S. and people of good will across the world in grieving the terrible acts of September 11, 2001. We found these crimes against humanity to be horrendous and contrary to the core teachings of our faith traditions. RELATE (Religious Leaders Acting Together for Equality) is 52 religious leaders of Baha'i, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant denominations from 12 northern suburbs. As a collective body of religious leaders, we originally penned this statement as a response to vicious hate crimes, including the murder of Ricky Byrdsong, on the North Shore in July 1999. Our goal in publishing this Joint Public Statement was to declare our common commitment to …
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8:27 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Winnetka: Where did your other post go? You made an absurd allegation that shows a lack of understanding of basic United States (and Native American) history. Can you please re-post it so that I can respond appropriately? more ›
Jessica Sieghart recalls her personal experience of 9/11.
Everyone old enough to remember 9/11/01 has a story to tell. The tragic events that unfolded on that day reached out to us all in one way or another. For me, it started a series of “firsts” - beginning with the first time I knowingly and consciously uttered a four letter word in front of my children. I can recall Matt Lauer’s announcement that a plane had struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center as not making sense. Why would a plane be flying low enough in that area to strike a building? I’d never been to New York, but that didn’t seem right to me. Chicago is full of skyscrapers and in the probable hundreds of times I’ve been downtown, I couldn’t recall a low flying airplane. Ever. In hindsight, something in my gut knew this…
11:15 pm on Sunday, September 11, 2011
Charles, I guess it goes along the lines of the "one bad apple" theory. Granted, in this case there was more than one, but you're right...this wasn't the Muslim world, it was a group of wackos and you'll find wackos in any category of people. I can't even imagine being so closed minded to others' ideas and beliefs. Well, except for the wackos, of course :) I'm not sure being kind is part of their… more ›
A longtime funeral director is on call to identify victims in disasters around the country. By far, his biggest job was 9/11, and a series of cemetery monuments will never let him forget.
When Rick Lohrstorfer says a few words Sunday at the dedication of a 9/11 memorial in Ridgewood Cemetery, he’ll only allow himself a couple of seconds’ flashback to the horrors he experienced in New York in the terrorist attack aftermath. At the 3 p.m. dedication, which will include fire department officials from Niles and a Northbrook Boy Scout troop at the cemetery, near the Des Plaines/Glenview border, Lohrstorfer can’t dwell in the past. Nor can he go through life emotionally dragged down by the grisly job he performed along with thousands of other public safety workers and other public and private-sector people who helped a wounded nation recover from the horror. After all, Lohrstorfer, of Palatine, has been a lifelong funeral …
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1:23 pm on Thursday, September 15, 2011
Would love to get this picture of me and my granddaughter! If you can send me a copy I would love it! Amy lane 6549 w Higgins Chicago 60656 thank you! more ›