Santa during UCIGC Children's Christmas Party 2011. Picture of the year 2011.

Pic. 1 (Ugandan Banana), Pic 2, (Ugandan Lead Drum), Pic 3, (Chicago Cranes soccer Team), Pic 4, (League Trophy won by Chicago Cranes).

UGANDAN COMMUNITY IN GREATER CHICAGO

"The UGANDA COMMUNITY in GREATER CHICAGO is organized exclusively for promoting sports, cultural diversity, economic, philanthropy, social gatherings, and educational purposes more specifically to promoting sports, cultural diversity, economic, philanthropy, social gatherings, and educational purposes. The UGANDA COMMUNITY in GREATER CHICAGO is a non-profit, non-political organization.''

The Uganda Community in Greater Chicago Inc. (UCiGC) is a non- profit, non-political organization of people of Ugandan decent residing in the greater Chicago land area. UCiGC is organized exclusively for enhancing cultural diversity, social interaction, economic well-being, educational, sports, and charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501(c) 3 of the internal revenue code. UCiGC was incorporated in the state of Illinois on April 26th 2007.
Membership to this association includes all Ugandans and any other individual with a mutual interest regardless of sex, color, race, religion, culture or any other differences and predilection and must be a resident of Illinois USA. UCiGC is a member of the United African Organization of Chicago and the East African Community Association of Chicago.
The first residents of the Uganda Community came as students in the late 1960s and by the beginning of the 70s the population started growing as Ugandan citizen started leaving their country in a bid to escape the iron arm of Dictator Idi Amin Dada.
In the 1980S, more Ugandans freeing the civil war joined the Diaspora in the quest to restart life and escape the uncertainty and insecurity in the country. Since then they settled in the city and her adjacent suburbs, and many of the initial members are professors, doctors, entrepreneurs, nurses, engineers, religious leaders, to mention a few but the community has a very vast portfolio of professionals.

The 1990s brought yet another wave of immigration which led to an organized structure of the community, families took roots and an administration was created. More than 500 Ugandans are estimated to be living in the Chicago metro and have more than 300 registered with UCiGC.

In 1995 and 2009, the Uganda community in Greater Chicago in association with Uganda North American Association (UNAA) hosted the two historical UNAA annual conventions, both conventions were very challenging to the unity of the entire Ugandan Diaspora Community in North America and Canada. In the late 1990's and early 2000's , UCIGC enjoyed the tremendous generosity and hospitality from Professor Joseph Kyagaba Lwanga’s family who hosted Christmas Eves for all members here in Chicago, and attended by Wisconsin and Indiana members as well. Members enjoyed delicious foods, drinks, dance and meeting new friends for several years. At his residence, was the birth of a tradition UCiGC celebrate and host every 24th of December.Uganda Community is known to live in the entire Chicago Metropolitan and her adjacent Illinois cities and suburbs, thus defining the name Uganda Community in Greater Chicago Inc. Settlement of Ugandans in Chicago is therefore distributed based on the families work place, community preference, and search for were one’s heart calls a home.