Chicago Bosnia Center Expected to Close
June 30, 2006
The Bosnian and Herzegovinian American Community Center, the only social-service group that serves Bosnian refugees and immigrants in the Chicago area, is expected to close this week from lack of funding after a decade of helping their clientele gain access to education, employment, and housing, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which as recently as 2004 gave the center $202,000, has shifted its giving to charities that assist more recently arrived immigrants.
As many as 35,000 Bosnians currently live in Chicago, many of whom immigrated in the 1990s during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
