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George Fabe Russell, USA TODAY NETWORK. August 21, 2024 at 3:19 PM. Dozens of people protesting the Democratic National Convention over U.S. support for the Israeli offensive in Gaza were arrested ...
The George Floyd riots in Chicago were a series of civil disturbances in 2020 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. Unrest in the city began as a response to the murder of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The demonstrations and riots, supporting justice for Floyd and protesting police brutality, occurred simultaneously ...
Part of the 1968 U.S. presidential election, the Protests of 1968, Opposition to the Vietnam War and political violence in the United States during the Cold War. Chicago police drag an anti-Vietnam war protester across Michigan Avenue on August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention as the crowd chants " The whole world is watching ".
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California.The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar, vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion), and Andy Ross (guitar, keyboards and vocals), who joined them in 2005, replacing original guitarist Andy Duncan.
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–present) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center ...
Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings.
The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009. The movement formed in opposition to the policies of Democratic President Barack Obama [1][2] and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election [3][4] in which Republicans gained 63 House seats [5] and took control of ...