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Chicago is responding to President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration raids with protests that began yesterday. Two more are planned for tonight and tomorrow nights.
Tonight's protest is to be held in front of the Chicago Police Department headquarters to denounce alleged cooperation of Chicago police with federal agents arrests last week as they detained immigrants outside a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement office on the Near South Side. The Police Department has denied that officers aided the federal agents.
Here's what we know about the protests.
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