Syrian refugees find rare path to Chicago

posted on: Sep 5, 2015

For nearly four years, Fatima and Fadi Adris and their family had been fleeing the brutal civil war in their native Syria.

They lived in Homs, the nation’s third-largest city, where they met, were married and had their first child. They made a good home for themselves. He worked as a painter. She went to school to learn English. But then in 2011 their lives were turned upside down.

“We were sitting in my house when … it was destroyed over our heads,” said Fadi Adris, recalling the bomb that leveled the family home.

So began their desperate flight to safety. At once shocking and all too familiar, their harrowing story of bombings, executions, refugee camps and a final flight to safety in Chicago is just one of thousands coming out of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the Middle East and Europe.

Source: www.chicagotribune.com