Drawing on fifteen focus group discussions and 120 face to face in-depth interviews this paper seeks to describe the main contours of Chicago’s Islamic landscape. More specifically, it asks whether and how Chicago’s well-entrenched social, racial and class divisions as well as political institutions affect the formation of its new Muslim communities. This study not only focuses on one of the understudied groups, Muslims in Chicago, but also delves into the interaction between the political and social landscapes of the cities and the new identities that are molded in them. Exploring the ethnic, sectarian, class plurality within Chicago’s Muslims this research shows as immigrants discover their cities and the cities discover them, they engage in a process of mutual transformation. Under the conventional immigration studies, the tale of this transformation has often been told either from the perspective of the transformation of the city or the resilience or failures/successes of immigrants’ integration to their new social political settings. To map out the micro processes of mutual transformation our in-depth interviews focus on the members of Muslim Student Association of the University of Illinois, DePaul University, Loyola University, and the University of Chicago as well as the leaders of a selected civil society groups. While this study draws on the focus groups and in-depth interviews this research makes “city” a part of its inquiry and asks whether and how Chicago shapes its Muslim residents’ experiences and how Chicago’s Muslims resist, react, adapt, and alter their urban setting.