CHICAGO – The annual commemoration of “Unity Day,” marking Ukraine’s independence of January 22, 1918, and the unification of eastern and western Ukraine of January 22, 1919, was held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha in Chicago on January 26. The event was organized by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America–Illinois Division with a themed focus on “Security and Independence.”
The guests of honor were Lt. Gen. Mykhailo Zabrodskyi, commander of Ukrainian Airmobile Forces, and Dr. Philip Karber, president of the Potomac Foundation. Also in attendance were Democratic Congressmen from Illinois Danny K. Davis, Michael B. Quigley (co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus), Raja Krishnamoorthi and Sean Casten; Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas; Commissioner Dan Patlak of the Cook County Board of Review; and representatives of the Azerbaijani, Hungarian, Lithuanian and Polish communities.