Tomorrow, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights will celebrate New Americans Democracy Day with an event at Foreman High School in Chicago. Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Jan Schakowsky will both be in attendance to help kick off ICIRR's New Americans Vote 2008 campaign, which seeks to register 20,000 Illinois immigrants to vote this election year.

Head over to ICIRR's website to read more about this initiative and learn how to help. And be sure to check out ICIRR executive director Josh Hoyt's Progress Illinois column on how the immigrant vote affected the 14th District special election earlier this year.

Photo courtesy of ICIRR.