Protesters Say South Side Needs Adult Trauma Center More Than Presidential Library
CHICAGO (CBS) -- After the Obama Library announcement, about 75 protesters marched through the University of Chicago campus to the home of the school's president, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
The protesters wound their way through the campus, and blocked 59th Street in front of university President Robert Zimmer's home.
Organizer Veronica Morris-Moore says if the city and the university could move mountains to bring the library to the South Side, they should sign a community benefits agreement that at the very least includes trauma center that could save lives.
"The people whose lives are being lost on the South Side due to gun trauma, due to economic violence, due to police violence will not be able to find much live-saving value in the presidential library
The university recently raised the age limit on its pediatric trauma unit to 17. Morris-Moore says it shows that if the university wants to do something, it can.