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Look Homeward, Angel: Park Pretty

Many years ago, during my time as a child and through young adulthood, I was immersed... more

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MIKE CHECK! “Mayor Rahm Emanuel is a Corrupt Corporate Jester. Suppresses decent in Chicago”

Emanuel’s protests ordinance passes, but not without protest

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Welcome to the civil-liberties-free zone : Chicago

Rahm Emanuel's clampdown on civil liberties goes beyond his goal of silencing... more

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The 7 Teens Who Beat Helpless Asian Kid Behind School In Chicago Arrested! (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

Helpless Asian kid gets attacked, bullied, and jumped by 7 teenage boys behind school... more

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Citizens #Occupy Chicago Hearing on Closing Clinics (VIDEO)

Chicago residents confronted Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's Health Commissioner, Bechara... more

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My First Pimp Dollar by Yung Dreamy

New single from "My First Pimp Dollar" by Yung Dreamy, from the upcoming... more

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Sports Guys: In Tebow We Trust

The guys talk about Tebow and his cheating.

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Maggie Daley, Chicago’s Gracious First Lady, Dies at 68

Maggie Daley, who dedicated herself to children’s issues and the arts, while... more

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Watch: Scott Walker Gets (Mic) Checked by 99 Percent (VIDEO)

Koch-head Governor Scott Walker got a good dose of the 99% during a posh speech in... more

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OCCUPY CHICAGO 175 Arrested Last night

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Bill Clinton In Chicago: Occupy Wall Street Movement Can Create 'Good Positive Debate'

Former President Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday evening as part of Chicago Ideas Week at a... more

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Chicago to Wall Street: Pay Us Back!

While the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are... more

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Five Chicago Women Arrested Inside Bank Of America For 'Returning' Trash From Foreclosed Homes

Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday after they dumped bags of trash from foreclosed properties into the bank and refused to exit the building.

Gloria Washington, 80, Donna Roberts, 56, Annie Harris, 76, Doris Strickland, 68 and Madeline Talbot, 61, all Chicago residents, walked into the Bank of America branch just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday carrying bags of trash collected from vacant foreclosed homes on the West Side, as part of a demonstration organized by Take Back Chicago.

According to Action Now, an advocacy group that helped organize the protest, a clean-up crew spent the morning collecting garbage and furniture from a Bank of America-owned vacant property in Garfield Park to deliver "to its rightful owners."

Meanwhile, more than a hundred protesters descended upon the downtown bank after marching from the Hyatt Regency, where a picket line and occupation at the seat of the Mortgage Bankers Association conference resulted in about 20 peaceful arrests. Police and organizers directed demonstrators to march peacefully around the bank, but once bags of garbage and a dilapidated chair and sofa labeled "Property of Bank of America" were delivered to the bank's main entrance, people crowded around the building, pressing their signs up to the window.

Washington, Roberts, Harris, Strickland and Talbot entered the bank through the main entrance, where several police officers were waiting for the planned demonstration. The women walked up to the windows facing Adams and LaSalle and emptied their bags, filled with empty snack food bags, cigar wrappers, a broken doorknob and several unwrapped condoms.

Three officers approached the women, who locked arms and surrendered their bags and purses to the officers. One younter woman shook out the remaining garbage in her tote bag and propped up a flier advertising the protest's goals before handing over her canvas tote bag, as a crowd three rows deep pressed up against the window cheered.

"They're gonna arrest those old ladies, and all they want is their houses back," one protester said. "They're tired of living this way."

Officers removed the women from the front window to the back of the bank, which had been closed during the commotion. At least three of the women were handcuffed near a separate entrance towards the back of the bank, where Bank of America employees were positioned to keep onlookers away from the scene.

The women were marched through the hallway of the attached building and escorted into a police van in an alley behind the bank, where at least eight Chicago Police officers were positioned around the van fending off a small crowd of protesters in Action Now T-shirts. Action Now's Communications Director Aileen Kelleher says the women are currently being held at the police station at 18th and State streets.

Uniformed police officers cleaned up the trash dumped inside the bank as protesters left the bank, marching towards Millenium Park's Cloudgate sculpture for another demonstration. Kelleher says organizers have been told the women will be released soon.Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday... more