With special guests like Maryum Ali, Muhammad Ali’s daughter, and Illinois Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, Hussain said it was an honor to collaborate with the Illinois Muslim Civic Coalition on the event.

The year registered a great loss in the field of performing arts, as singers Pankaj Udhas, Prabha Atre, Sharda Sinha, Ustad Rashid Khan and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, among others, bid adieu to ...