When election and racial justice protests rocked Chicago, the mayor used raised bridges and shut down public transportation as crowd control measures, which harmed the city’s workers.
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‘Everybody has to be included for us to truly be free’
Vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes and the Chicago Freedom Ensemble lend their marching music—and the community they’ve built with it—to the fight for Black lives.
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Most of the people arrested at the protests were Black
An analysis of 2,172 detainments raises questions about CPD claims of equitable policing practices.
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This Friday’s ‘Bandcamp day’ benefits more than the artists
Many musicians and labels will donate the day’s Bandcamp money to support the fight for Black lives.
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Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests
As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
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Photos: Monday’s anti-Trump protest
On Monday, October 28, President Donald Trump visited Chicago. And Chicago was not happy about it. Police estimate a crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people attended protests that began outside Trump Tower and snaked through the Loop. Photographer Joeff Davis was there to capture images of the day’s events. Trump Protest 10-28-19
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‘Enough is enough’
Many in Chicago’s Hong Kong community share common concerns for the safety of loved ones back home.
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival about witches
Kristen Sollée explained our current witchy moment, with detours into mythology, theology, and Bewitched.
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A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
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Eve Ewing still believes in Chicago’s public schools
The new book Ghosts in the Schoolyard explains why people care so much about institutions that the world has deemed “failing.”
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Raised Voices
Anya Davidson delivers a comics report from the Women’s March to the Polls.
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McDonald’s new West Loop HQ is ‘perfect’ location for protesters to get their messages out
On Thursday, animal rights groups and the Fight for $15 made a colorful stand timed to coincide with the corporate behemoth’s annual shareholders’ meeting.
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Chicago-area students take to streets to protest gun violence even as scare hits Northwestern
While a report of a gun on campus turned out to be a hoax, it heightened fears on a day of a nationwide walkout.
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‘Heartbroken’ CPS students inspired by Parkland teen activists to push for gun control in walkout Wednesday
Many CPS students are expected to participate in the National School Walkout and hope it will spark more activism in favor of stricter gun laws and #BlackLivesMatter.
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From the archive: What we’ve learned in the year since the last Women’s March
Looking back on the year of #MeToo