Justice Department Files Suit Against City of Des Plaines for Refusing to Allow Islamic Center to Operate in Vacant Office Building

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–September 30, 2015.  The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the City of Des Plaines, alleging that the northwest suburb violated federal law when it refused to allow an Islamic group to operate a place of worship in a vacant office building.

The suit contends that Des Plaines discriminated against the American Islamic Center when it refused to grant a rezoning request to allow AIC to set up a place of worship in…