A group of Australians who are pushing back against McDonald's plans to open a restaurant in their small Melbourne suburb near protected parkland are set to bring their fight to Chicago.

Next week, they plan to deliver a petition to McDonald's CEO Don Thompson with some 100,000 signatures against the restaurant chain setting up shop in their community. The fast food giant is based in Oak Brook.

Grassroots organizers in Australia have been working to prevent the McDonald's with a 24/7 drive thru from opening in the area ever since the company submitted its application in 2011 to erect the restaurant near the Dandenong Ranges.

"It's a little bit like putting a McDonald's right near Mount Rushmore," one of the Australian activists Garry Muratore told the Chicago Tribune. "That's what we think about the Dandenong Ranges; it's such a pristine forest, and they don't need to be there."

So far, efforts by protestors and the village's city council to stop McDonald's have been unsuccessful, which is why they've come to Chicago. They ran an ad in the Chicago Tribune and have other downtown actions planned for next week.