Four people were arrested Sunday in the ongoing battle for a trauma center on Chicago's South Side. When 50 people entered the University of Chicago's new hospital building stating that they were protesting the lack of a trauma center, university police quickly began manhandling the protesters and pushing them out with their batons, according to reports. The protest, which is planned as a sit-in that would have had only five activists remaining in the buidling, turned into a free for all that resulted in four people being arrested by Chicago police.
Protesters have been arrested this afternoon at the Kluczynski Federal Building as they rally for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to push for Wall Street corporations and the nation's richest two percent to pay more taxes instead of cutting social service programs.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel filed a notice of appeal Friday on a
decision Circuit Court Judge Thomas More Donnelly made a day before to
dismiss the October 2011 arrests of 91 Occupy Chicago protesters.
Prosecutors indicted three NATO protesters yesterday invoking a state terrorism statute passed after 9/11. But the prosecutors say they are
not ready to show the indictments.
Occupy Chicago says thousands of protesters will go to Chicago next week
before the city hosts the NATO summit, May 20 and 21. While Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel views the summit as raising Chicago’s profile, Occupy
thinks the event will call attention to their concerns and invigorate the Occupy Wall Street movement that started last fall.
National Nurses United members said today that they plan to file a
legal challenge with the city of Chicago, after the city told them to
change their rally destination for a Friday, May 18 protest, prior to
Chicago hosting the NATO summit May 20 and 21.
“We are
prepared to seek injunctive relief in federal court,” said Jan Rodolfo (right in photo),
the Midwest director of National Nurses United at a press conference
outside City Hall. Read more »
Ten mental health advocates were arrested last night outside the Woodlawn clinic and their tent city was taken down by police as they camped out in protest of the closing of six facilities.
Chicago Police Department leadership has pretty broad guesses
about what security will be needed for the NATO and G8 summits, how many
people will come in to Chicago to attend the summits, and who might be
arrested for protesting the summit.
“This is a federal, White
House event and we don’t have a lot of information at this time,” said
Debra Kirby, the police department’s chief of international relations in
response to questions posed by Ald. Ed Burke (14th) at a city council Budget and Government Operations committee hearing
today. The NATO and G8 summits will be held at McCormick Place more or
less simultaneously, May 19-21.
“Frankly, it leaves a lot of unknown questions at this time,” she added.
Four people were arrested Sunday in the ongoing battle for a trauma center on Chicago's South Side. When 50 people entered the University of Chicago's new hospital building stating that they were protesting the lack of a trauma center, university police quickly began manhandling the protesters and pushing them out with their batons, 
National Nurses United members said today that they plan to file a
legal challenge with the city of Chicago, after the city told them to
change their rally destination for a Friday, May 18 protest, prior to
Chicago hosting the NATO summit May 20 and 21.
