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First big NATO protest rolls out Friday

The first major demonstration of the NATO summit weekend descends on Daley Plaza today, promising to gather thousands of people protesting government economic policies they believe benefit wealthy corporate interests...
Occupy Chicago lawyer Sarah Gelsomino speaks to the media outside the Chicago police department's organized crime division building in the 3300 block of W. Fillmore. Gelsomino claims the demonstrators who were arrested in a raid on a house the previous night are now being held at this station in shackles. Gelsomino said the nine people have been "disappeared" and the Chicago police will not acknowledge the raid or that they are holding the people, but Occupy lawyers have seen them inside.

Lawyers for NATO protesters allege improper arrests

Officers wearing Chicago Police uniforms raided an apartment in Bridgeport late Wednesday and detained at least eight activists without justification, lawyers working on behalf of NATO protesters alleged today. Police...
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Lawyers for NATO protesters allege improper arrests

Officers wearing Chicago Police uniforms raided an apartment in Bridgeport late Wednesday and detained at least eight activists without justification, lawyers working on behalf of NATO protesters alleged today. Police...
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McCarthy: Police have done well with protesters

Chicago police have done a good job handling NATO-related demonstrations so far this week, even when protesters at one event tried to provoke confrontations, Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Wednesday. In...
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Police, Secret Service tighten the Loop

Chicago police officers are used to flooding hot spots on the South and West sides to fight the street gang violence that drives most of the mayhem in the city,...
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Protesters gearing up for NATO summit

Some are anti-war. Others want economic reform. Still others are environmentalists. No matter their agenda, people who share a dissatisfaction with the world's political and economic status quo have begun...
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City relents, allows Daley Plaza rally

City officials reversed course Friday and said they would allow a national nurses organization to hold a protest rally in Daley Plaza before the NATO summit begins next weekend, in...
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City cuts deal with nurses over protest rally

City officials and a national nurses organization cut a deal today that will allow a protest rally in Daley Plaza next Friday before the NATO summit begins, in return for...
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City cuts deal with nurses over protest rally

City officials and a national nurses organization cut a deal today that will allow a protest rally in Daley Plaza next Friday before the NATO summit begins, in return for...