Charles Thrush

2 weeks ago | blockclubchicago.org | Quinn Myers |Charles Thrush

THE LOOP — Scores of Chicagoans will take to Downtown streets Saturday as part of the “No Kings” march, a series of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump. The No Kings march and rally will kick off noon Saturday at Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St. It is the latest in this week’s flurry of anti-Trump protests locally and across the country as the administration has ramped up immigration raids and sent in military forces to Los Angeles to quell civil unrest.

3 weeks ago | blockclubchicago.org | Charles Thrush |Manny Ramos

CHICAGO — The Chicago Transit Authority and other public transit agencies are staring down steep cuts to service after state legislators ended a spring session without passing a funding bill to stave off a major fiscal cliff the agencies are facing.

Mar 17, 2025 | blockclubchicago.org | Ariel Parrella-Aureli |Charles Thrush

HUMBOLDT PARK — The proposed relocation of a community health center in Humboldt Park continues to stoke controversy as some neighbors claim the clinic could increase congestion on a residential block, despite a traffic study indicating the opposite. PrimeCare Health, a family medicine practice which operates nine health centers in the area and serves mostly Medicaid holders, is looking to move and expand its Northwest Health Center at 1649 N. Pulaski Road to a manufacturing warehouse at 1750 N.

Mar 13, 2025 | blockclubchicago.org | Mack Liederman |Charles Thrush

CHICAGO — Skylar Damiano went from owning a Tesla to spitting on them. The Humboldt Park resident would take his 2022 Tesla Model Y on roadtrips from Detroit to Dollywood — but he finally had enough of Elon Musk by President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day, when the Tesla CEO made what appeared to be a Nazi salute. Damiano promptly traded in his Tesla, the first car he owned, for another electric vehicle at a “huge loss,” he said.