Police Shut Down Another Protest At Mental Health Clinic
The fight is escalating to save a mental health clinic in the Woodlawn neighborhood, as protesters camp outside in the second high-profile demonstration in a week.
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The fight is escalating to save a mental health clinic in the Woodlawn neighborhood, as protesters camp outside in the second high-profile demonstration in a week.
As 200 students and parents touted a longer school day and other initiatives on Saturday at a rally hosted by the advocacy group "Stand for Children" at Roosevelt University, a small group of protesters picketed outside.
Nearly two dozen people were arrested overnight, after a protest at a mental health clinic in the South Side's Woodlawn neighborhood.
Tenants of an apartment building that's in foreclosure in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side say they're fed up and are threatening a rent strike.
A group of protesters critical of prisoner treatment at the state's super-max prison marched in the Loop on Wednesday in support of Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to close the facility.
Anti-violence demonstrators gathered Monday in the Northwest Indiana city where two girls were struck by bullets last week while playing a video game – a crime for which there are still no suspects.
High School students posed as tear-gassed NATO demonstrators on Wednesday as Franciscan Saint James Hospital in Chicago Heights drilled emergency teams who might be needed if protests get out of hand during the NATO summit in May and Chicago hospitals are overwhelmed.
After listening to a full day of testimony, a city hearing officer has told anti-war protesters planning a major rally during the NATO summit in May that he will have a decision by later this week on their appeal of the city's denial of their preferred march route.
About 300 people, according to police estimates, stood in rainy Federal Plaza carrying signs that read "Stand up for Religious Freedom" and yellow balloons adorned with the word LIFE.
Controversy has erupted over a plan for a fertility clinic in downtown Naperville.
A small group of Occupy Chicago activists marched through downtown Chicago Sunday night, in a hastily-called march to protest the arrest of their fellow demonstrators at gatherings in St. Louis and New York City over the weekend.
A crowd of frustrated soccer moms, dads and players gathered Monday night at a meeting of Aurora's Indian Prairie School Board, protesting a plan to eliminate middle school soccer.
Cab drivers are protesting taxi industry reforms passed by the city in January.
Students and faculty at Columbia College are protesting plans to raise tuition, as the school also weighs cutting some programs and restructuring some academic departments, according to published reports.
Union workers locked in a two-year contract dispute with Hyatt Hotels accused the Pritzker family who owns the hotel chain paying too little in property taxes, an allegation the hotel chain called "deeply offensive."
Members of Chicago's Korean community protested Thursday morning, after the Chinese government decided to repatriate about 30 defectors from North Korea.
Members of the Latino community in the Humboldt Park neighborhood are not the slightest bit amused by a bakery's choice of names for one of its desserts.
The Chicago Board of Education has voted to close seven public schools next school year and "turn around" 10 other schools, despite vehement objections from many parents, teachers and community members.
As the Chicago School Board gets set to vote on a plan to restructure failing schools, opponents staged a candlelight vigil Monday.
Just days after state lawmakers introduced legislation to legalize gay marriage in Illinois, Chicago's Gay Liberation Network led a demonstration outside Holy Name Cathedral Sunday morning.
Protesters gathered outside the Mayor's Office with a golden toilet Wednesday, demanding that Mayor Rahm Emanuel create jobs with $33 million in taxpayer funds that had gone in part to the CME Group so the company could renovate its restrooms.
Relatives and friends of a 15-year-old autistic boy who was shot and killed by police officers on Wednesday were voicing their outrage by staging a protest outside of the police station Thursday night.
There were no arrests at a demonstration outside an Orland Park pet shop Sunday, but police came close.
The host committee for the upcoming NATO and G8 summits offered a sneak peak Wednesday of the city's push to capitalize on the dual summits in May.
