Maggie Martin stood behind a mass of microphones and throngs of media at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Wacker Drive and spoke about one of the most personal and heartbreaking experiences imaginable. While serving in the U.S. Army Third Infantry Division from 2001 to 2006, she, like many women soldiers, experienced hardships and bigotry due […]
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The National Nurses United raged against the machine and gained a powerful ally in the process. Thousands of nurses, wearing red T-shirts and green Robin Hood hats symbolizing their proposed “Robin Hood tax,” marched through downtown Chicago Friday to Daley Plaza. Then Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine’s activist guitarist, took the stage and worked the crowd into […]
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Ukrainian Village residents rallied at City Hall against the proposed closing of the local Wood Street police station Monday.
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