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Occupy Chicago Sun Oct 23 2011
More than 100 Arrested as Occupy Chicago "Takes the Horse"
More than 1,000 Occupy Chicago demonstrators marched to the corner of Michigan and Congress on Saturday night as the movement attempted to occupy Grant Park for a second week in a row.
After hours of demonstrating, dozens of protestors were arrested around 1am on Sunday while supporters chanted, "ONE - We are the people! TWO - We are united! THREE - The occupation is not leaving!"
The protest was as notable for its size as its orderliness, with demonstrators hosting conversations weighing the pros and cons of risking arrest and police officers glacially moving towards detaining the protestors. Nearly two hours passed between when the police shut down the park and the first protesters were escorted to CPD trucks in plastic restraints.
More photographs from the demonstration are below.
dio / October 24, 2011 11:20 AM
Its funny, you stay a few extra hours after closing, being non-violent in an open and very public area in Chicago you get immediately arrested.. a police officer ( http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2011/10/24/1-officer-3-shootings/) needs to shot 3 people before a months-loooong investigation gets started...