Trump, Chicago and No Kings
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The first "No Kings" Chicago protest was held in June in Daley Plaza and drew tens of thousands of demonstrators. Saturday's protest has been moved to Grant Park, a larger area that can accommodate more people.
No Kings protests were held on Saturday in downtown Chicago, the city’s suburbs and northwest Indiana. Here’s what to know.
Chicago’s Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ Protest Fills Downtown Streets With Huge Crowd: ‘We Need to Act Now’
The gatherings are part of a mass mobilization across the U.S. and globe positioned as a denouncement of President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. In Chicago, they come amid sustained immigration raids.
After a massive rally in Grant Park, people took to downtown streets to show opposition to efforts including the deportation campaign that's deployed federal agents and troops to the Chicago area.
Speaking at a "No Kings" rally in Washington, D.C., Bill Nye, the former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy," urged lawmakers to “stop the abuses of this petulant president [Trump] and his circle of sycophants,” declaring, “No thrones, no crowns, no kings."
A Chicago-based elementary school teacher mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination by using a sickening gun gesture at a No Kings protest over the weekend. Lucy Martinez, a teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School,
John Cusack’s message to Donald Trump during Chicago’s No Kings protest goes viral as the actor condemns federal ICE deployments.
People gathered in Chicago and the suburbs Saturday for a "No Kings" protest amid ongoing federal immigration enforcement operations in the area.