Chicago is home to the third-largest urban Native American population in the country. About 70% of American Indians and Alaska Natives now reside in urban or suburban areas.

The state has agreed to return tribal land in northern Illinois, required schools to teach Native culture, allowed high ...

The American Indian Center’s new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift for the cultural center to 65,000 Native Americans in the Chicago area.

The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association and Destinations International recently announced a partnership to help ...

According to Joe Podlasek, Executive Director of the American Indian Center in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, the greater Chicago area has the third-largest off-reservation population of Native ...

As the coronavirus disproportionately affects Native American communities across the country, the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative works to source and distribute immediate medical ...

American Indian Center 1630 W. Wilson Ave. Chicago, IL 60640 (773) 275-5871 www.aic-chicago.org. Click here for calendar and events. Learn about native plants and their medicinal uses at the ...

When her family moved to the city, she joined one of the largest urban Indian populations in the country. "Chicago has a very vast native community, over 100,000 native people here," Walks First said.

Taking a closer look at Indian Boundary Park’s name offers insight into Chicago’s history of Native American removal, and sheds light on the continued relationship many Native Americans have ...

Native Americans started it all, making Chicago a welcoming place to “DuSables” of all colors, creeds, orientations and socio-economic backgrounds, Buildings Commissioner Matthew W. Beaudet ...

Donald Trump’s social media posts calling for the Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians to revert to their old names ...

When Native American families came to Chicago in the 1950s and in subsequent decades, Susan Kelly Power, a Yanktonai Dakota, was there to help them.