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...catering trucks were starting to pull up alongside the vans hawking flags from just about every Latino country stretching from Mexico south, the mothers with large grocery bags to keep their kids well fed during a long march and a long day, and the dozens of media trucks parked around Union Park on Chicago?s Near West Side. Some had been here all night; some were just rushing to join friends and strangers...
...woman spills coffee while juggling a cup of fruit. Park District workers tidy the large park, and police officers, mostly chatting among themselves, keep a careful eye on a crowd that is quickly swelling. The people here - mostly Hispanic, but whites and blacks as well - wear serious faces, but there is a sense that this is as much an event as a rally, as busloads of kids, large trucks and ordinary drivers whip by honking approval for a gathering that police expect to grow to some 300,000 in Chicago alone. Newspapers carrying the headline "Today We March, Tomorrow...
...that we?ve been waiting for,? says one man here for the protest. ?People need to take notice.? And notice they will. Despite grey skies warning of strong showers later in the day, the crowd gains bulk. Old, young, some tired from a night or weekend spent in the park to get ready for the march, which will take this crowd a few miles east to Chicago?s Grant Park. ?This is the way that America was built,? said Ivan Miller, 43, a criminal justice student at Westwood College near O?Hare International Airport. ?I?m a black...
...Closer to 10 a.m., the crowd was pushing through the park, numbering a few hundred as they wait for the march to begin around noon. But not everyone was taking the day off to protest. Manuel Escelante, 46, a Honduran and Chicago Park District worker, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. ?I can?t leave my job,? he said, pointing to a line of leaves and rubbish left just outside the park?s wrought iron gates. ?This looks terrible. I?m with them, my heart, but I have...
...Similarly, Mario Perez, a Mexican with his green card who is trying to become a citizen, couldn?t skip class at Malcolm X College, a community college a few blocks from Union Park. ?I have an English test. Maybe I?ll go over there later, but this I have to do,? said Perez, 62, who has been in the country for about 40 years. ?That?s what I?m doing. I?m bettering myself. I want...