Albanian Language School Chicago (Shkolla Kongresi i Manastirit)

Albanian Language School Chicago, known in Albanian as Shkolla Shqipe "Kongresi i Manastirit," is a community-based Albanian language school serving Albanian-heritage families in the Chicago area. Its name honors the 1908 Congress of Manastir, the gathering that standardized the Albanian alphabet — a fitting reference point for a school built around teaching the language to the next generation.

The school's stated focus is preserving and promoting the Albanian language for future generations, work it carries out within the Chicago metropolitan Albanian community. Public references to the school appear under both its Albanian name, Shkolla Shqipe "Kongresi i Manastirit," and the English shorthand "Albanian School Chicago."

Qendresa Brahimi has been publicly identified as the school's director (drejtoresha) in posts by the Albanian-American Community of Illinois (AACI), the local umbrella network that lists and promotes Albanian organizations across the state. In that role, Brahimi has spoken about the school in an interview with Gazeta Dielli, the long-running Albanian-American newspaper based in New York.

The school sits within a small but active cluster of Albanian-language and cultural institutions in the Chicago area, and is recognized by AACI as part of that local community network.