Members of the Chicago area’s Palestinian community came together in Tinley Park Saturday for the 16th annual Convention for Palestine, a gathering that aims to preserve culture and history, held this year amid the violence in Gaza.
More than 4,000 people packed the Tinley Park Convention Center for the event that was to be held, as it has been in the past, in Rosemont before the host hotel backed out last month, saying there had been threats, the Daily Herald reported.
