Chicago is ground zero in U.S. Muslim renaissance
Liza Garza, Cristal Truscott of Progress Theatre, and Carlton Turner of M.U.G.A.B.E.E. preform at IMAN's Community Cafe at Little Village Lawndale High School in Chicago. RNS photo by Richard Pack.
CHICAGO (RNS) At the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield, there are all the predictable signs of decline: vacant businesses, empty lots, spikes in violence. But this nondescript intersection is also the site of a renaissance in American Islam, where new Muslim institutions are emerging at an unprecedented rate.