Community News
Holy Week Events
EGG HUNT, Saturday, April 12, 10 am at St. Martha Catholic Church, 8523 Georgiana Street, Morton Grove. Same time, Same day, Similar event at Prairie View Park, Morton Grove, Illinois. Non residents need to pre register. Check village park district website.
EGG HUNT, Skokie Park District, Saturday, April 19, 10 am, with three-age section, at Oakton Park, 4701 Oakton Ave., Skokie, 60076. Bring your own basket. No registration needed.
Palm Sunday Worship thru Music, April 13;
Other CMUC coming activities
“Notes of Rest” practicing the rest of faith and music on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025, 10:30 am, featuring Julian Davis Reid. Freewill offering.
CMUC Maundy Thursday Service , 6:00 pm, April 17; Good Friday Seven Last Words Service, 6:00 Pm, April 18; Easter Sunday, 10:30 am, April 20
Line Dancing with silent auction, Friday, April 25, 6-9 pm, Call Tina de Ocampo for details, (847) 254-5506)
Filipino Tenor Marvin Gayatgay, alumnus of the the world-renown Philippine Madrigal Singers will be back with selected Filipino classics and popular and Broadway favorites on Friday, May 16, 2025, 7:30 pm with Milette Silverio, piano accompanist. Freewill offering.
These events will be at the Central United Methodist Church (CUMC), 8237 Kenton Ave., Skokie, Illinois, 60076. Tel. (847-673-1311). Rev. Timothy Biel. Visit www.skokiecentralumc.org.
PACC Good Friday Easter Services, April 18, 20
PHILIPPINE American Ecumenical Church, 3533 N. Albany Ave. Chicago, IL 60618 will hold a 7 Last Words Ecumenical Workshop Service on March 18 at 12 noon.
A potluck fellowship will follow.
Edison United Methodist Church, 6740 N Oliphant Ave, Chicago, IL 60631 will hold a joint Easter Sunrise Ecumenical Service on April 20 at 6am.
Monetary offering will be given to PACC pastoral scholarship.
For further information, contact Bishop Ely Pascua 773-583-4448 and 630-608-9793.
Showing of 'Bona' at the Gene Siskel Film Center
Monday, April 21, 6:00 p.m. | Bona skips class to hang around the sets of bit-actor Gardo. When her father attempts to beat some sense into her, Bona moves in with Gardo, only to find herself more the maid than the wife. A collaboration between two greats of Filipino cinema, Lino Brocka and Nora Aunor, BONA was selected for the Cannes Film Festival 1981, but remained largely unseen, its elements long believed lost. The rediscovery of BONA is made possible thanks to José B. Capino, Film Studies Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, whose research for the book Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics helped spur the film’s restoration. Professor Capino will introduce the screening of this iconic gem of Philippine cinema.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu
Location:
Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State Street Chicago, IL 60601)
More Info (External Link)Posted April 15, 2025 in Arts/Entertainment
PIWC Senior Citizen Day, May 18
The Philippine Independence Week Committee (PIWC) Senior Citizen Day will be on Sun.,May 18 from 9 AM- 3 PM at the Rizal Center, 1332 W, Irving Park Rd. Chicago, IL 60613. This is open to senior citizens to attend a Mass at 9 AM and also attend a Free Clinic from 10-AM to 12 PM.
It will be led by PIWC 2025 Overall Chairperson Dr. Nida Blankas-Hernaez and by Senior Chairs Myrna Cordero and Ella Basilio, and Co-Chairs Marilou Tabo, Mel Toledo, Segundina Quiba, and Rhey Adriano. There is also a Talent and Best Costume Contest.
For more info, call Myrna Cordero at 847-999-8913 or Ella Basilio at 312-576-6917.
Piyesta Pinoy, June 14
THE Piyesta Pinoy or Phililppine Fest, will celebrate Filipino culture with performances, food vendors and music on Saturday, June 14 from 11 AM to 5 PM at Bolingbrook High School, 365 Raider Way, Bolingbrook, IL 60440. Guest performer or Artist will be announced later on. There is no entrance fee.
Community News
March 2025
CONSUL General Melanie Rita Diano (seated middle) with Gawad Kalinga advocates led by Leslie Tiquia and Chicago Area Knights of Rizal led by Sir Mariano A. Santos during their courtesy call March 26 at the Chicago Philippine Consulate. ConGen Diano was made honorary president of the Ladies for Rizal. (Chicago PCG photo)
A theater at the Northshore Performing Center was named in honor of Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen. Also in attendance are former Secretary of State Jesse White and Former State Rep. Lou Lang
KAPIHAN sa Konsulado, or a coffee talk hangout, was held at the Philippine Consulate in Chicago April 11 on the subject of immigration under the Trump administration and visa opportunities available for Filipinos to work in the U.S. Atty. Janice Dantes of Pinay Law (seated L, front in white sweater) addressed concerns of the Filipino American community on options of how immigration lawyers can assist illegal migrants. (PINOY Photo by Grace Garcia Szpytma)
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News in the Philippines
The International Criminal Court (ICC) redacted the names of nine-co-perpetrators related to former President Rodrigo Duterte's crime's against humanity.
FORMER President Rodrigo Duterte's daughter, Sara Duterte, said that her father's defense team will comprise of only foreign lawyers who have mastered international law and are knowledgeable of grave crimes under the jurisdiction of the ICC, according to Inquirer News Service.
FAMILY members of those slain during former President Duterte's drug war gathered for a mass at Sacred Heart Parish in Manila to celebrate his arrest.
THE Michelin guide will make its debut in the Philippines in 2026. It's expansion to Manila includes Pampanga's vicinity, Tagaytay, Cavite, and Cebu.
MOUNT KANLAON on Negros Island erupted on April 8 causing a 75-meter ash emission from the crater, according to Inquirer News Service.
THE Philippines reaffirmed its claim to an extended continental shelf encompassing Sabah in North Borneo to the United Nations secretary general.
News in the United States
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is arranging a visit to the Philippines in April to uphold the Philippines-US. alliance in the administration of Donald Trump.
BRANDON Lee, a Fil-Am, was shot as a suspect of an extrajudicial assasination attempt in 2019. He is a human rights advocate who celebrates Duterte's arrest by the ICC. He believes he was targeted after defending human rights of indigenous Filipinos as a journalist.
FIL-AM comedian Jo Koy's latest tour, "Just Being Koy" will be held in the Philippines at SM Mall of Asia Arena on June 21. Jo Koy stresses the need for more Filipino representation in Hollywood.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has put on hold reciprocal tarrifs for 90 days with the exception of China. He said that there will be no tariffs on electronics.
THE US Supreme Court has agreed on May 15 to hear the oral arguments on Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship.