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7 months

Chicago is the biggest city in the United States to pass a resolution in favor of a cease-fire in Gaza. And to be clear: this matters.

Mo Dunne

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7 months

41: The vote is now closed with 23 Yays and 23 Nays. The Mayor is the tie-breaker in such scenarios -- and votes Aye. The resolution passes.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

A 15-year-old was shot by police and the community reacted. So please think twice before mourning property.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Let me very clear: tonight police hunted and terrorized protesters. They violated fundamental human rights. Don’t believe me? Here’s a whole thread of proof.

Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here at The Bean in #MillenniumPark where protesters have gathered with the following demands: 1. Take CPD out of CPS 2. Cancel the ICE Citizens Academy 3. Reallocate funds towards e-learning & community centers 4. Universities cut ties with ICE #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here at The Bean in #MillenniumPark where protesters have gathered with the following demands: 1. Take CPD out of CPS 2. Cancel the ICE Citizens Academy 3. Reallocate funds towards e-learning & community centers 4. Universities cut ties with ICE #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

This is a Wrigleyville hate account

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Over 18 thousand of the 19 thousand survey responses wanted to defund the police.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

After an extremely violent altercation, protesters are blocked in at Adams/LaSalle, raising their hands in the air. They want to be allowed to leave, but police aren’t letting them. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

...She says as she prepares her own police force to retaliate on any person who dares to protest.

Archived: Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot

@mayorlightfoot

4 years

Yesterday in Wisconsin, a police officer shot Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, a father, 7 times in the back. I am deeply disturbed by the video capturing part of the incident. I urge civil & criminal authorities to pursue an immediate & thorough investigation of the shooting.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

It’s almost as if, things stay peaceful without... a police... presence...

Vashon Jordan Jr.

@vashon_photo

4 years

Is this a dream?? There is literally no immediate police presence here at #BreakThePiggyBankChicago I guess they got the message that they are NOT welcomed here...or anywhere. #ChicagoProtests #DefundCPD #DefundThePolice

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters with bikes are lining Columbus facing off with the cops #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Correction: it has been confirmed that he is 20-years-old, not 15.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters singing, “We ready, we ready, we ready for change,” as they march north here in 22nd ave in #Kenosha

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here at Buckingham Fountain for the Black and Indigenous Solidarity Rally calling to defund CPD and decolonize Zhigaagoong #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

People are passing out sharpies for people to write bail numbers numbers on their arms. Organizers are calling Black and Brown youth to front, trying to get them out. Here at LaSalle/Adams in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

Lightoot: Our communities are feeling an all too familiar sense of rage. Yea, with YOU and YOUR police force.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

I could not help myself

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters marching west on Wacker in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Pepper spray everywhere, cops have reclaimed statue #ChicagoProtests #ColumbusStatue

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Organizers are calling minors to go the front, they’re trying to get them out here at LaSalle/Adams in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters are completely blocked in here at #LaSalle in the #Loop . Protesters are begging the police to let them go home. #ChicagoProtests .

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters are now working to pull the statue down #ColumbusStatue #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here’s a photo of cops throwing protesters’ bike in a pile #ChicagoProtests #ColumbusStatue

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Altercations between police and protesters here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtesters

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Lmao y’all remember when Lori suggested a 5th star be added to the Chicago flag for the way the City handled covid? ahahahahaha ahahahah haaaaaa

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

UPDATE: Organizers say that protestors are settling in, preparing to occupy for 24 hours here in #HydePark #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Community members yelled at the at the police to, “Let the community handle it.” This echoes a continued cry from communities that they, in fact, keep each other safe.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

The results showed that Chicago residents want to prioritize community services and allocate the *least* funding for police.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here at 61st/Drexel, the UChicago PD headquarters in #HydePark . Police are not allowing food/water to be given to protestors who are inside, who are said to have been there for 3-4 hours. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

I’m here at Daley Plaza in the #Loop where protesters have gathered alongside @LTBcoalition with the following demands: 1. Lift the ban on rent control 2. Cancel rents & mortgages 3. Stop all evictions during this pandemic #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Pepper sprayed was just sprayed everywhere, protesters retreating #ChicagoProtests #ColumbusStatue

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

AP said, fuck your “officer-involved” bs

APStylebook

@APStylebook

4 years

Avoid the vague "officer-involved" for shootings and other cases involving police. Be specific about what happened. If police use the term, ask: How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, spell that out.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

A 13-year-old is going tf off on City Council rn and I AM HERE FOR IT TALK YOUR SHIT

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

More people here in #LoganSquare to demand justice for Adam Toledo than I’ve seen at a protest in a LONG time.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

This language is not only negative but perpetuates a false narrative. Painting and chalking up an intersection as young people celebrate together is not vandalization. Write carefully— especially when you have an audience who is depending on your social media for news.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Police surround protesters from all angles. “You look stupid,” chant the protesters at the cops. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters are throwing a block full fledged block party, dancing and writing in chalk, here in #NorthAustin . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Police hit this protester multiple times on the arm and now they fear it is broken, here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

4 years

“There’s no police out here so I feel pretty at peace,” Kenosha native Sarah Ferrow told me. Everything is still peaceful here. #Kenosha

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here at 51/Wentworth where activists are holding a press conference. “Chicago is the most overpoliced city in the nation,” said @606hoodlum . “... The Black and Brown youth of this city warned you guys, we warned you about Lori Lightfoot... the way CPD acted yesterday is not new.”

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

A protesters jacket, completely covered in pepper spray here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

. @_KellyGarcia__ and I just picnicing in this great public park here in Lakeview!

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

1 year

Met someone on the west coast who’s sister lives in Chicago. Apparently she used to live in Logan Square but recently moved to a “super hip, boho neighborhood.” I’ll let y’all guess which one she’s referring to.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

“Fuck that bridge,” chant the protesters as they approach the Michigan bridge, which has been raised this entire week here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters are chanting, “Put your mask on,” to the cops who are not wearing masks here at Wacker/Michigan in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

I’ve been to a lot pressers and I’ve heard a lot speeches. Very few have been as piercing and as powerful as this from @kamilalyciaa last Sunday.

BLMChicago

@BLMChi

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Which side are you on? (4/4)

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

“You can call it ICE, you can call it CPD, but at the end of the day, their only job is to terrorize our communities,” said an organizer here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

“Black lives matter IS abolish ICE,” said @JalenKobayashi of @GKMC18 . “...This is our lineage, this is our revolution... we have freedom fighters who have shed sweat and blood on these streets.” #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Massive police presence here in #Englewood at 56th/Aberdeen where a man was shot by police at around 3pm today.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Police are announcing a 2nd Lawful Order to Disperse at Marble/LaSalle. Prot. must disperse or they’re breaking the law. Protesters are currently still being held here at LaSalle/Adams, some have been allowed to leave, but police are not allowing full dispersal. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Here in #Kenosha WI where protesters have been gathering since last night after police shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake while he was getting into his car. Businesses are boarding up windows on the outskirts of downtown.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

A crowd is growing here in #MilleniumPark for Solidarity Street. As a *note* this is not advertised as a protest, however, I will be tagging my tweets w #ChicagoProtests to create more visibility.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

They’re slowly letting people go here at LaSalle/Adams. Completely surrounded by police. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters now doing the electric slide to, “Back up back up, we want freedom freedom, all these racist ass cops we don’t need em need em,” here in #LoganSquare . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Inside UCPD headquarters for 14+ hours? Perfect time to create some comics #HydePark #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Just a reminder: this report only covers unrest from May 29-June 7 and found that the police failed just in that short amount of time. But the unrest occurred all summer with repeated acts of brutalization and a failure to respond appropriately from CPD.

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

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BREAKING: Chicago police failed on every level when responding to protests and unrest over the slaying of George Floyd, a newly released watchdog report finds.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Does anyone else get anxious when watching shows/movies now? Like, WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEIR MASKS???

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

“We cannot ignore the nightmare our Black brothers and sisters are living every single day across this country,” said an organizer here at Washington/Michigan in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Protesters pausing for another dance break at Kimball/Fullerton. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

This headline is atrocious. This- I- I don’t even have words.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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“Who keep us safe?” Chant the younger protesters. “We keep us safe,” here in #WestEnglewood . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

At the 35th Ward Carlos Ramirez-Rosa’s office where he’s returning 39 out of the 75 bikes that were taken from protesters by CPD at the July 17 Columbus Statue protest. @wttw

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

“Black lives matter,” chant the protesters who are poised at Randolph/Michigan. Police are positioned just north of the crowd, in full riot gear here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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Organizers call for banners to come to the front of the crowd as they prepare to march here in #MillenniumPark . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Organizers play a video recording of Dwayne Truss inviting students to “come to my house” to speak with him. Today, they’re taking him up on that. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

More from Washington/Michigan. #ChicagoProtests #SolidarityStreet

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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“I don’t see no riot here, why are you in riot gear,” chant the protesters here at Wacker/Michigan in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

I’m here at Belmont/Halsted in #Northalsted for the 2nd annual Drag March for Change hosted by @DragCouncil , with an extensive list of endorsers including @defundcpdchi @BraveSpaceChi @ChiFreeSchool & more.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

More dancing here at 55/Cottage Grove here in #HydePark . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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Police have started pushing protesters here at Wacker/Michigan in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Line of police and other personal continue to block to the path to LSD here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

Yes but sometimes reporters’ photos/videos cause severe irreversible harm to protesters— also practicing their 1st amendment right. If our work results in harm of the communities we’re meant to serve, then we’re not doing our jobs correctly.

Evan Garcia

@EvanRGarcia

3 years

Reminder: if you’re in public, you have no expectation of privacy (see: First Amendment). That stands for cops and protesters alike. Tonight I saw protesters hassling and bullying a photographer for taking photos of them. We’re trying to tell the full story. Let us do our jobs.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Current scene here in #GrantPark by the #ColumbusStatue cops have regained control, tons of protesters choking on pepper spray #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Police have used pepper spray and are now reinforcing their line here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

How it started😭 —-> How it’s going

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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“We shouldn’t have to be here during a pandemic, we shouldn’t have to be worried daily if this will be our last day,” said an organizer here at Washington/Michigan in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Tonight at 6 pm, I'll be live-tweeting a Facebook Live conversation with @chicagosmayor and Budget Director Susie Park about findings from the community round tables and budget survey. @city_bureau Follow along or view the meeting for yourself here⬇️⬇️⬇️

Chicago Mayor's Office

Chicago Mayor's Office. 5,137 likes · 801 talking about this. Father. Husband. Mayor. Fighting for the soul of Chicago.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

In #NorthAustin for a protest organized by @606hoodlum and other Westside youth. The protest will march to the home of Board of Education member Dwayne Truss, who voted not to remove SROs from CPS. #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Kenosha native Arnetta Griffin is passing out food at 22ave/62 st as a part of her non-profit called, God’s Kitchen of Kenosha. She’s been passing out food 3 times a day for the past 3 years. She said the community really came together this week and donated food.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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The action’s organizers are wearing orange bandanas. They ask the protesters to only listen to those in the orange bandanas here in #MillenniumPark . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

Police continuing to advance as protesters retreat west here on Randolph in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtesters

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

4 years

I’m here in #Kenosha for what marks day 3 of protests after 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot by police while getting into his car Sunday night. As of right now, doctors say he is paralyzed from the waist down, but they don’t know if it’s permanent.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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Here in #Kenosha for 4th day of protests spurred by police shooting of 29 y/o Jacob Blake on Sunday. Last night, at around 11:45, a shooting occurred causing 2 fatalities and 1 injury for which 17 y/o Kyle Rittenhouse has since been charged with 1st Degree intentional homicide.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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UPDATE: after hours of not being allowed to use the bathroom, protestors inside UCPD headquarters are relieving themselves *inside* a tent they have at the back of the room #HydePark #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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“Hey hey, ho ho, CPD has got to go,” chants the crowd as they head north on Michigan here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

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Jay Jay of @ChiFreeSchool now performs a dance outside of Truss’ home here in #NorthAustin . #ChicagoProtests

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

"In one brutal and beautiful summer the bridges went up, the statues came down, and we reimagined a better Chicago." Read my latest @Chicago_Reader piece commemorating the 1st anniversary of the Chicago uprisings.

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Grace Del Vecchio (she/they)

@delvecchiograce

3 years

More pubs need to follow Block Club's lead on this.

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

3 years

NO VIDEO IN STORY: Video shows Chicago police shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo as he raised his hands:

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@delvecchiograce

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Police continuing to advance, banging their batons on their shields as they march here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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In my latest for @Chicago_Reader , I write about what happened in the three hours after police shot Latrell Allen in Englewood on Sunday.

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@delvecchiograce

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And the protestor dance party has resumed outside of the UCPD headquarters here in #HydePark #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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Fuck — and I mean this in the most disrespectful way — individualism

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@delvecchiograce

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“They know what power we hold, do you?” @BLMChi ’s Ariel asked the crowd. #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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People are dancing, playing music here in the #Loop . #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

3 years

“Fuck your brunch,” chants the crowd as it marches north on Halsted.

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@delvecchiograce

4 years

Two local activists and musicians open the action with song here at 19/Ashland in #Pilsen . #SaveThePostOffice #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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It has begun to rain here in the #Loop . Organizers are calling protesters to get into groups of three and to give each other their names and birthdays. #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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Protesters have begun to march out of #MillenniumPark . #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

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“We have been mis and diseducated on purpose, it is imperative that we read,” said @JalenKobayashi of @GKMC18 on the need to educate ourselves. “...We think that supremacy only exists with white people and it does not... it exists in our own communities.” #ChicagoProtests

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@delvecchiograce

4 years

Twitter deserves to see this. #philly #jawns #dont #play

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@delvecchiograce

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Just after 10, police told a group of protesters to lower their umbrella shield, they refused. Minutes later, the police let off loud sirens, people everywhere are coughing on the remains of tear gas. Here in #Kenosha

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