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On March 29, 2021, at 2:38 a.m., a 13-year-old Mexican American boy, Adam Toledo, was shot and killed by Eric Stillman, a Chicago Police Department officer, in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. After the incident, the Chicago Police Department stated Toledo had been killed after an armed confrontation with police. [133]
On July 23, 1977, 20 to 30 black members inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy attempted to march into Marquette Park after an April bombing of three houses in the neighborhood that were owned by blacks. The police did not allow them to march into the neighborhood, declaring it too dangerous; when several entered anyway, they were arrested.
In 1995, the National Park Service estimated 400,000 people attended the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., the official count for the event. [2] The organizers said more than a million people turned out, and they threatened to sue the Park Service unless it revised its estimate.
Chicago, which has hosted more political conventions than any other U.S. city, has been unable to escape comparisons to the infamous 1968 convention where police and anti-Vietnam War protesters ...
The Democratic National Committee projected anti-Trump campaign slogans onto Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday, one day before the Demo c ratic c onvention kicks off.. The messages include "Trump ...
The Chicago PD received 125 hate crime reports in 2022 as of Nov. 6 – the majority of crimes being committed against Black Chicagoans. Anti-Black hate crimes in Chicago have risen 50% in 2022 ...
Pages in category "Protest marches in Chicago" ... March 19, 2008, anti-war protest; C. Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism; Chicago Public Schools boycott;
As of 2018, they had changed their name to Chicago Committee Against War and Racism. [2] CCAWR gained a foothold in Chicago street politics and rose to prominence when it organized a rally at Federal Plaza the day after the U.S. invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003.