Due to a technicality, the city was forced on appeal Monday to allow one of those groups to march to the sidewalk in front of the United Center. The Poor People’s Army was granted its permit after the city failed to respond to the application within its own 10-day deadline.
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The city has denied a group’s permit to hold a demonstration at Jane M. Byrne Plaza during the Democratic National Conventnion in August. A judge this week will decide whether an alternate route is acceptable.
In Chicago activist Andy Thayer’s experience, Democratic presidential administrations typically deliver the “bare minimum” while in office. But amid increasing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and threats to abortion rights, Thayer doesn’t think the bare minimum is enough. “When (Democrats) get into office, the only pressure they feel is from the far right,” said Thayer, the co-founder of the .