Chicago Protests

In the months preceding the long-anticipated NATO summit's arrival in Chicago, some feared a repeat of the chaos and violence of the 1968 Democratic N...

A small demonstration against police brutality on Chicago's South Side devolved temporarily into a shouting match between protesters and area resident...

After weeks of negotiations, the city and anti-war activists on Wednesday agreed on the particulars of a permit that will allow protesters to demonstr...

Four of Chicago's most influential aldermen on Wednesday introduced a resolution that, if approved, could dramatically impact the ability of the publi...

I voted yes on the NATO/G-8 Ordinance, proposed by Mayor Emanuel, today. While my original position was to vote against this ordinance, my opinion changed over the last two days, because of the changes made to the original proposal.

Organizers of Occupy Chicago are focusing on getting an indoor location for the cold weather ahead. They say they're pulling back on the plan to estab...

More Republican leaders have weighed in on the local chapter of the Occupy Wall Street movement that reached its 27th consecutive day of demonstration...

Illinois' two U.S. senators this week addressed the continuing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have only continued to grow in their home state ...

I believe that what these people are doing is the very definition of courageous. The people camping and marching should be admired for doing something that many people are too lazy or fearful to ever even consider.

Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday after they dumped bags of trash from foreclosed properties into ...

Story updated with bond information, further details A Mobile, Alabama man was ordered held on $250,000 bail Tuesday after allegedly punching a Chi...

This movement has potential to unite communities in Chicago that have been estranged since the early 70s, but its student leaders will have to reach out to citizens who have never set foot on a college campus or who have never heard of the Federal Reserve.

What started as a small group of frustrated people asleep in the rain has transformed in just 14 days to a small movement that sometimes attracts 100 people or more to the corners of LaSalle and Jackson.

Someone working inside the Chicago Board of Trade has a message for Occupy Chicago protesters, proclaimed via sheets of paper taped inside four of the...

As Chicago protests in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York verge onto the start of their third week, participants in the ...

More than 160 activists from about 50 groups in the U.S. and Canada met at the Chicago-Kent College of Law Sunday to discuss logistics and strategies ...

The City of Chicago is officially giving up on an ordinance that would block protesters from causing a disturbance outside of places of worship where ...

Just days before the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq, a panel of appellate court judges ruled that a group of protesters fro...

On Saturday, Chicagoans joined the chorus of protesters across the country to support union members in Wisconsin and other states who are fighting to ...

Local Egyptians plan to rally today at 2 p.m. near the Egyptian Consulate at 500 North Michigan Avenue. Several Facebook events, including one that...

CHICAGO — Workers have approved a $1.75 million agreement, ending a sit-in that lasted six days at a Chicago window and door factory. U.S. Rep....

I am absolutely stunned that the peaceful sit in at the Republic Windows and Doors factory and warehouse has not been stuck in the ghetto of "immigrant story."

CHICAGO — The creditor of a Chicago plant where laid-off employees are conducting a sit-in to demand severance pay said Tuesday it would extend ...