Author: Marta Farion

CHICAGO – “History will judge our generation for what we did or did not do for Ukraine at this moment in history,” U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) said on August 31 during a gathering in her honor at the University Club in Chicago. Members of Ukrainian community organizations joined the tribute, including the Illinois Division...

CHICAGO – On June 24, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski addressed an audience of members of the Polish community and invited guests, among them members of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America-Illinois Division, the Selfreliance Ukrainian Credit Union, Ukraine’s Consul General Serhiy Koledov, as well as the city’s political leaders, including Cook County Treasurer...

CHICAGO – On a bitter cold winter day, over 100 members of the Ukrainian community gathered at the historic Water Tower in Chicago on December 9 to protest Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and the looming threat of another invasion. The rally was organized by the Illinois Division of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America...

CHICAGO – The Illinois Division of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) announced plans for a rally to be held at the historic Water Tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago on January 9. The Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian and Belarusian communities, and other friends of Ukraine, are expected to join the rally at 3...

CHICAGO – Valery Khmelko, an internationally renowned sociologist who was the chairman of the sociology department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the president and co-founder of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), died on October 31. He was 82. Mr. Khmelko’s scholarship focused on the relationship between personality and social structure,...

Sen. Durbin, Reps. Davis and Quigley join tribute CHICAGO – On January 25, Chicago’s Ukrainian community honored senior member of Congress Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) in a tribute hosted by the local division of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. The tribute was part of the annual Ukrainian Unity Day, commemorating the anniversary of January 22,...