Bosnian Herzegovian American Community Center

Nearly 50,000 Bosnian and Herzegovinian refugees live in Illinois and many of them live here in Chicago. The BHACC provides support services such as language tutoring and citizenship classes, as well as cultural events; they help Bosnians survive in Chicago, and they help other Chicagoans get to know their Bosnian neighbors. What more can I say? It’s a very important organization, and yet it’s getting less help from the state than ever before.
Take advantage of the events they sponsor in other venues (for all Chicagoans, including non-​Bosnians). Go to a reading by local author and MacArthur («genius grant») winner Aleksander Hemon or to a film festival of new Bosnian films by young directors. See a play that’s a fresher, more direct, more complex examination of life in wartime than anything by contemporary American-​born playwrights. Listen to some new voices and hear things you’ve never heard before.