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Several Freedom Convoy truckers gather at the Grant Park in Chicago to protest in solitary with Ukraine.
2022-02-26

The Chicago Teachers Union votes to defy an order by the public schools to return to in-person instructions over COVID-19 concerns.
2021-01-24

Rioting and looting occurs in Chicago, U.S., after a police shooting. Thirteen police officers are injured, two people are shot, and more than 100 are arrested.
2020-08-10

Demonstrators protesting against gun violence block Interstate 94 in Chicago.
2018-07-7

Four third-party U.S. presidential election candidates—representing the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Justice parties, who were excluded from the high-profile televised encounters between Mitt Romney or Barack Obama—attend their own presidential debate hosted in Chicago by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, which hopes for a more transparent and open electoral system. Romney (with the Republican Party) and Obama (with the Democratic Party) refuse invitations to attend the debate, televised on international news channels but on no major U.S. network.
2012-10-23

Teachers go back to work in Chicago after the union leadership votes to suspend its strike while the membership reviews a tentative pact with mayor Rahm Emanuel.
2012-09-19

Chicago's Midway International Airport closes due to the snow with 1,300 flights cancelled at O'Hare Airport.
2011-02-1

Workers in Hilton Hotels in the US cities of Chicago, San Francisco, and Honolulu continue a strike over what they claim are efforts to "lock workers into cheap recession contracts."
2010-10-17

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that Chicago's handgun ban is unconstitutional.
2010-06-28

At least 40 people were shot over the weekend across Chicago, with seven of them slain, Chicago Tribune reported.
2010-06-20