Skokie, Illinois

The Skokie Festival of Cultures is a two-day outdoor event showcasing the various cultures and celebrating the harmonious diversity in the community. In response to a Ku Klux Klan assembly, representatives of the community organized a Peace & Harmony Rally at which residents spoke, each representing a different race or national origin, and placed a different type of flower into a vase, with the large mixed bouquet at the Rally's end symbolizing Skokie's harmonious diversity. Currently serving over 300 youth and their families, the Youth Outreach Program, run by a Youth-At-Risk Task Force, created a Youthful Offender Court that exclusively sees Village ordinance violation cases where the youth and his/her parent or guardian must appear, allowing the judge increased time to discuss the offense and focus on remedies to best serve the child, his/her family and the entire community.

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