News - chicago
chicago police get high marks for NATO protests
22 May 2012, 7:41 am
The sight of
chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators Sunday was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most of those who clashed with protesters have been alive.
chicago Fire Fall to the Portland Timbers: MLS Fan View
22 May 2012, 1:43 am
The
chicago Fire fell 2-1 to the Portland Timbers on May 20 at JELD-WEN Field. Unfortunately, the Fire were not able to overcome an early lead by the Timbers, and mistakes contributed to the disappointing match. The team seems to have lost some of its momentum from the earlier games.
Protests dwindle in chicago as NATO summit concludes
21 May 2012, 4:51 pm
chicago (Reuters) - Anti-war protests in
chicago dwindled on Monday to a few hundred people at the headquarters of U.S. defense contractor Boeing and President Barack Obama's re-election headquarters as the two-day summit of the NATO military alliance ended. Between 200 and 300 demonstrators, some throwing paper planes, gathered in a festive atmosphere at airplane maker Boeing. The turnout was a ...
Nato chicago protests hit Boeing
21 May 2012, 3:07 pm
Protesters in
chicago rally at the HQ of defence giant Boeing, one day after violent clashes and arrests as Nato leaders hold a summit in the city.
chicago Cops Treat Journalists Better Than NYPD
21 May 2012, 2:37 pm
A lawyer representing a Getty photographer arrested during NATO protests in
chicago this weekend says the police have been "incredibly restrained" compared to their New York counterparts, despite the arrest and the injuring of at least one other photographer.
chicago's NATO Protest: Clashing with the Cops
21 May 2012, 11:40 am
For a moment on Sunday,
chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy made his way through massive crowds gathered to protest NATO at the military alliance's summit here, outfitted in nothing more than his white supervisor uniform. No riot gear. No intimidating getup.
chicago braces for final day of NATO protests
21 May 2012, 9:29 am
Demonstrators prepared Monday to launch another day of major protests in
chicago as world leaders met at the NATO summit, while commuters heading into the city found themselves navigating extra security and revised train and bus routes designed to dodge the summit zone.