Durbin participated in Chicago’s Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 17, 2006.
Durbin joined volunteers in building a playground at Reinsberg Elementary School as part of the 13th Annual Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon on June 10, 2006.
Durbin received an award for his support of peace in a divided Cyprus at the 17th Annual Cyprus Conference in Washington, D.C. on June 8, 2006.
Durbin welcomed Dr. Kathleen H. Goeppinger, Joe Szabo (far left) and Dr. Leonard Latkovski (far right) to the Capitol as his guests for Latvian President Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga’s address to a special joint session of Congress on June 7, 2006.
Durbin discussed global warming with a group of elementary school students in Lincoln Park Zoo’s Polar Bear Plaza on May 31, 2006. Durbin highlighted the plight of polar bears, which are facing extinction as glaciers continue to melt at an alarming rate.
Durbin visited the American Indian Center of Chicago on May 30, 2006.
