DOWNTOWN — A large protest against President Donald Trump's recent immigration policies is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, which will send some Downtown workers home early.
The protest scheduled for outside the federal Department of Homeland Security, 525 W. Van Buren St., is to call on Trump "to rescind his executive order [and] for the release of all detainees in Chicago and across the country," according to a press release.
More than 850 people have RSVP'd to the protest on Facebook, dubbed "Day 5 of the Resistance" as of 3 p.m.
The protest is being organized by the Arab American Action Network , a Chicago-based grassroots non-profit aimed at assisting Arab Americans as well as "forging productive relationships with other communities."
Almost two dozen other groups will also attend, a number of them associations of various ethnic communities in Chicago.
At least one office in the area asked its workers to leave the building by 4 p.m., saying the march could attract up to 700 people at Van Buren and Canal.
