5 arrested after largely peaceful anti-Trump protests downtown
Angry over Donald Trump’s election victory, thousands of protestors took to local streets for nearly nine hours Wednesday and into early Thursday in an intense show of opposition to the president-elect. The Chicago demonstrations were among several held across the country, including New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Oakland, in the wake of Trump’s stunning defeat of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The drawn-out Chicago event – which drew as many as 2,000 people, according to police estimates – was relatively peaceful and devoid of any of the heavy vandalism or effigy burning that occurred elsewhere.
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