Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has offered protesters at the Democratic National Convention a route near the United Center to potentially settle a federal lawsuit which contends the city of Chicago is violating protesters’ First Amendment rights by blocking their plans to march within “sight and sound” of the convention hall.
The amended route calls for protesters to assemble in Union Park on the near West Side before marching west along Washington Boulevard to Hermitage Avenue, then past a small park north of the United Center. The route then turns east on Lake Street back to Union Park.
The development was revealed Friday as part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by a coalition of protest groups organizing the so-called “March on the DNC,” which is seeking an injunction blocking the city from confining protesters to Grant Park far from the convention site.
The march’s organizers celebrated the new route Friday, but vowed to keep fighting for a wider, longer route.
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