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On April 28, 1977, village attorney Schwartz filed suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County for an emergency injunction against the march to be held on May 1, 1977. The injunction was granted, prohibiting marchers at the proposed Skokie rally from wearing Nazi uniforms or displaying swastikas. [24]
[12] Goldstein – who said he expected 50,000 people to attend a counter-demonstration to any NSPA rally in Skokie [13] – soon became known as the one who was leading "the fight to stop American Nazis from marching in the Chicago suburb." [14] Goldstein v. Collin, his lawsuit to stop the NSPA assembly, failed, as did Village of Skokie ...
The case eventually went to the Supreme Court and Collin and the NSPA won the right to rally in Skokie. But Collin agreed not to march in Skokie if the City of Chicago allowed him to hold rallies at Marquette Park again. [2] After the city granted the NSPA the right to return to Marquette Park, Collin held a rally on July 9, 1978. [18]
Charges will not be filed against the man who fired a gunshot into the air near pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside an Israel solidarity event in Chicago’s northern suburbs, prosecutors said ...
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The marches and community reaction led the city of Chicago in 1977 to ban all demonstrations in Marquette Park unless they paid an insurance fee of $250,000 (equivalent to $1.26 million in 2023). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While challenging the city's actions in the courts, the party decided to redirect its attention to Chicago's suburbs, which had no such ...
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Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977). Afterward, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the party had a right to march and to display swastikas , despite local opposition, based on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution .