Walwart workers participated in a simultaneous walkout and strike Wednesday at about 35 stores in the Chicago area.
The
walkouts included in-store “associates” who say they’ve been mistreated
by managers and are paid extremely low wages for demanding work. These
local strikers joined hundreds of similar protestors who walked off
their Walmart jobs in cities across the country Tuesday, including Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
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Four people were arrested Sunday in the ongoing battle for a trauma center on Chicago's South Side. When 50 people entered the University of Chicago's new hospital building stating that they were protesting the lack of a trauma center, university police quickly began manhandling the protesters and pushing them out with their batons, 
Employees at a giant Walmart supply warehouse in rural Will County
returned to work Saturday after staging a 21-day strike in response to
alleged employer retaliation by a Walmart subcontractor.