US Edition‘No Kings’ Rally in Downtown Chicago Draws More than 100,000 Protesters: ‘You Fight for the People’
Thousands joined the protest against President Trump's immigration policies, causing street closures around Grant Park amid nationwide demonstrations in over 2,000 cities, organizers said.
- On Oct. 18, 2025, the 'No Kings' protest began around noon at Butler Field in Chicago's Grant Park, closing parts of Jackson Drive and Monroe Street and causing heavy downtown traffic.
- Protesters criticized President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and federal raids after weeks of intensified federal immigration enforcement and a National Guard deployment request to the Chicago area.
- NBC Chicago's Sky 5 helicopter footage showed thousands in Grant Park and tens of thousands downtown, while organizers' nationwide map displayed events in more than 2,000 cities including over 30 near Chicago.
- Several Chicago and Illinois officials attended, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, Senator Dick Durbin, Governor JB Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, amid sharply divided political responses.
- The protests extended regionally and internationally, with Americans abroad rallying in major European cities and suburban communities like Aurora and Oak Park hosting similar demonstrations.
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At the call of the "No Kings" coalition ("No Kings"), millions of Americans marched across the country Saturday, October 18 to protest Donald Trump's authoritarianism. In Chicago, the rally was massive in a city where the US president is trying to deploy the army.
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Herald & ReviewThousands mobilize in Chicago, across Illinois to send a message: ‘No Kings’
CHICAGO — Tens of thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in downtown Chicago under overcast skies to say they reject the policies and tactics of the Trump administration.
No Kings Protest Draws Massive March Downtown to Decry Trump
LOOP — Chicago-area residents converged on the Loop on Saturday to protest Donald Trump’s administration, in Chicago’s largest entry in the second nationwide No Kings rally. People draped in the American Flag joined others carrying a massive reproduction of the U.S. Constitution, as sign-carrying demonstrators mingled with those dressed as Santa Claus and in tyrannosaurus rex, axolotl and chicken costumes. Organizers estimated a crowd of 250,000…
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