Chicago
The people have spoken: Save our schools!
February 25, 2013Hundreds of students, teachers, parents, staff members, and allies packed Chicago's Fuller Park Fieldhouse Thursday night.
Read moreToday in black history: Harold Washington won the mayoral primary in Chicago
February 22, 2013In 1983, Washington won the Democratic mayoral primary and later was elected the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Read moreChicago protestors: Cut the Pentagon, not our health
February 15, 2013Don't break our hearts, stop in the name of love; we can't have cuts to programs we depend upon.
Read moreToday in labor history: Lucy Parsons leads march in Chicago
January 17, 2013Parsons was described by the Chicago Police Department as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
Read moreToday in labor history: Steam boiler operators unionize
December 7, 2012Canadian workers joined the union a year after it was formed, at which point it came to be called the International Union of Steam Engineers.
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