Members of the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council hold a rally and press conference at City Hall on November 14th, 2018, with city officlals present, to demand a vote on budget amendment to redirect $25 Million to citywide trauma-informed mental health service. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
As the Black Lives Matter protest, organized by four teenage girls, starts down Michigan Ave, it turned on Adams Street as a girl holds a sign in support that says “Dr. Martin Luther King, # I Am” on July 11th, 2016. Shot for the Chicago Reader.
On September 26th, 2018 a vigil was held in honor of Laquan McDonald's birthday, where it would have been his 21st, outside the Criminal Courthouse where the Jason Van Dyke trial was being held. Candles were lit, activist spoke and lifted up the name of Laquan McDonald and balloons were let go in his honor. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
On September 26th, 2018 a vigil was held in honor of Laquan McDonald's birthday, where it would have been his 21st, outside the Criminal Courthouse where the Jason Van Dyke trial was being held. Candles were lit, activist spoke and lifted up the name of Laquan McDonald and balloons were let go in his honor. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
About an hour after the guilty verdict was announced for Jason Van Dyke's trial, people gathered outside City Hall for a rally, then proceeded to marched down Monroe street on October 5th, 2018. One of the organizers encouraged a young kid to say chants into a microphone for the crowd. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
Tammasha O’Neal is pictured in her apartment on August 15th, 2018. O’Neal holds a wooden cross made in honor for her son, Demetrius Archer, for a vigil and march held in 2016 that commemorated gun violence victims by Father Michael Pfleger. Demetrius Archer was shot and killed while sitting in a lawn chair around the corner of his mother’s apartment in June of 2016 when he was 20 years old. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
Activist William Calloway was one of the people who organized the birthday vigil in honor of Laquan McDonald's 21st birthday. As people lit their candles, Calloway started the vigil by counting down the number of times Laquan was shot as Calloway walked down a pathway lit up by 14 candles (the group didn't have 16 candles present) towards an arch way of white balloons. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
A young woman stands in the direct line of the cop, making eye contact with him, holding a sign that reads “Black Lives Matter” as cops blocked the protestors from continuing the march on Wacker Drive on July 11th, 2016. Shot for the Chicago Reader.
A member of the National Lawyers Guild observes the arrest of someone making sure it is not unlawful. Taken at the Trump Inauguration Protest on Friday, January 20th, 2017.
Organization leaders from different groups give inspiring speeches and shout chants before the march began on the streets on Friday for the protest. January 20th, 2017.
This protester waves a gay pride flag as the protest began in the streets of Chicago on Friday January 20th, 2017.
Many gathered at the Women’s March that took place downtown in Chicago in January 20th,2018. There are a variety of reasons why people marched, for women’s reproductive rights and the rights to their bodies, equal pay, for immigrants, for dreamers, for intersectionality, LGBTQ rights, Black lives matter, and many more. Together and as a united front, the power of the people is incredible. Here are a few snippets from the Women’s March in Chicago.
As the protest came to an end, a group of men prayed just outside of the Trump Tower here in Chicago on Friday January 20th, 2017.
A family poses with their signs as demonstrators march in the Families Belong Together march on Saturday, June 30th, 2018. The march began on Clark St. to Congress then from Congress it looped its way back to the Daley Plaza. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
People from the US Palestinian Community Network in Chicago came to the Women’s March in support and to demand the freedom of Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian prisoner. Chants were led “Ahed Tamimi is a freedom fighter and she taught us how to fight” “Say What?” “So we’re gonna fight all day and night until we get it right!” “ what side are you on my people, what side are you on?” “ We are on the freedom side!”
They then included Rekia Boyd in a version of the chant. “Rekia Boyd was a young black woman who was killed by the police.” “Say What?” “So we’re gonna fight all day and night so she can rest in peace.” One for Laquan McDonald:
“Laquan McDonald was a young black man who was killed by the police.” “Say What?” “So we’re gonna fight all day and night so he can rest in peace.”
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Thousands came out to the Daley Plaza to support immigrant rights and keeping families together during the Families Belong Together rally/march on June 30th, 2018. Many had a variety of signs relating to immigrants, this group of demonstrators held a cage as speakers presented. It was decorated with the photos of children and aluminum foil to resemble the detention cages the children are in. They chanted "Free Our Children!" Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
Reverand Gregory Seal Livingston and Tio Hardiman organized an anti-violence protest that shut down all the lanes on Lake Shore Drive, then proceeded to take the protest to Wrigley Field where the Cubs were playing, sharing the message with the northsiders that gun violence and violence against the black communities must stop. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
As the march came towards the end mark of looping back towards the Daley Plaza, a group circled in a circle and chanted different sayings in support of immigrants and abolishing ICE. This demonstrator above streches out her arm to show the number written on her forearm, the number of un reported deaths in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria. Taken on Saturday, June 30th, 2018. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
A child stands on a pole in downtown Chicago during the Women’s March and shouts “what do we want?” He laughed in surprise as he heard the crowd respond in unison “equal rights!”
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Window washers with the organization SEIU Local 1 strike to make demands for better wages, a contract, and health care provided in downtown Chicago on July 18th, 2018. Shot for The Chicago Reporter.
People gather during the 2015 Chicago Marathon at the 19 mile mark that passes through Pilsen to support the runners in the marathon on October 10th, 2015.
Oscar López Rivera received a warm welcome from the locals in the neighborhood as the celebration of his homecoming made its way down Divison Street towards the Humbolt Park boathouse where a program of speakers addressed the crowd.
A vigil was held on July 18th, 2018 for Harith “Snoop” Augustus who was shot and killed by the Chicago Police on July 14th, 2018. During a protest portion of the vigil on 71st St. and S. Jeffery Ave., people blocked the intersection and a woman sat down and made a sign in Harith’s memory.
