{"id":56955,"date":"2017-04-11T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=56955"},"modified":"2017-04-18T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T23:19:37","slug":"chicagoans-preserve-their-cambodian-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicagoans-preserve-their-cambodian-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicagoans preserve their Cambodian heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Peter Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Khemarey Khoeun will become the first Cambodian-American woman to hold office in the U.S. after being elected to the Skokie Park District Board last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodians first began arriving in Chicago as refugees escaping the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Years later, the Cambodian community in Chicago continues to maintain its traditions and culture.<\/p>\n<p>In Uptown, the Watt Khmer Metta Temple provides a peaceful place for Cambodians to gather and pray. The National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial preserves the turbulent history of Cambodians and ensures that future generations will not forget their heritage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Chicagoans preserve their Cambodian heritage\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/212689576?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Cambodian monks pray at the Watt Khmer Metta Temple in Uptown. 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Years later, the Cambodian community in Chicago continues to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":57234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-general-interest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicagoans preserve their Cambodian heritage - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicagoans-preserve-their-cambodian-heritage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chicagoans preserve their Cambodian heritage - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Peter Jones Khemarey Khoeun will become the first Cambodian-American woman to hold office in the U.S. after being elected to the Skokie Park District Board last Tuesday. 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