People's World - Illinois

10/19/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/can-you-help-put-the-peoples-world-fund-drive-over-the-top/

Thanks to the contributions of readers around the country, we have raised $165,000 this year for People's World. More than $130,000 of that total was donated by May Day. Thank you! Our goal for the Fall component of the Fund Drive is to bring in another $35,000 by Dec.

10/16/2025

SAVE THE DATE!
The People's World Gala is scheduled for Sunday, December 14th at The Highlander, 4808 S Archer Ave.
The tickets will be $75 per person.
We will have an AD book, a silent auction.

09/27/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/chicago-rejects-trumps-takeover-threat-at-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-rally/

CHICAGO—Hundreds of people gathered to attend Sen. Bernie Sanders’ rally in Chicago Sunday amid the political backdrop of a potential military takeover of the third largest city in the U.S.

09/27/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/stay-out-chicagoans-tell-trump-as-he-readies-military/

CHICAGO—As a federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump’s deployment of the military in the nation’s cities and using them as a police force under his control are illegal, Illinois officials, unions, and their allies warned that the regime in the White House should “stay out of Chicago...

09/27/2025

https://peoplesworld.org/article/existence-is-resistance-peoria-event-highlights-indigenous-solidarity-with-palestine/

PEORIA, Ill.—“As we say in Lakota: ‘Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ.’ We are all related. There is no other. All living things are related.” Those were the words of Jo Lakota as she reflected on both the trauma endured by her people and what she’s seen inflicted on the indigenous people of Palestin...

08/03/2025

https://www.cpusa.org/article/call-to-cpusa-peace-conference-2-0/

  The Communist Party USA and the People’s World are organizing an online Conference for Peace, to bring together activists from every corner of the movement for democracy and justice, and to affirm our unity in the struggle for peace at home and abroad.

06/13/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/illinois-rep-chuy-garcia-trumps-actions-are-about-domination-and-control-not-safety/

CHICAGO—Trump’s “cruel and violent” actions are not about safety, said Illinois Congressman Jesús “Chuy” Garcia at a rally here on Monday afternoon. “They’re about control,” Garcia said. “Fear is the tactic, and silence is the goal.

06/01/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-back-off-the-fight-to-save-chicago-transit/

CHICAGO—With a financial cliff looming at midnight on May 31, Illinois’ state Democratic lawmakers, even with a supermajority, have jumped ship on aiding Chicago’s mass transit systems.

06/01/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/chicago-teachers-union-tells-city-council-to-block-snap-curfew-ordinance/

CHICAGO—The Chicago Teachers Union is calling on city council members to reject a proposed ordinance that would allow police to enact a curfew anytime, anywhere, with just 30 minutes' notice, in response to so-called “teen takeover” gatherings.

05/13/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/chicago-activists-want-support-for-teens-not-snap-curfews/

A proposed ordinance in Chicago would grant police the authority to declare “snap” curfews anytime, anywhere in the city in response to so-called “teen takeover” gatherings.

04/30/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/millions-marching-against-trump-agenda-on-may-day/

CHICAGO—Organized labor and its allies are turning out the troops en masse in 600 marches nationwide in what is the largest U.S. celebration of May Day, the international workers holiday, in years.

04/30/2025

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/peorias-league-of-women-voters-offers-a-dire-warning-of-danger-to-democracy/

Peoria, Ill.—The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria (LWVGP) hosted a rally on April 26 to shine a light on democracy. Opening the event, Connie Romanus offered a dire warning: “In less than 100 days, we have seen the pillars of democracy jeopardized in all branches of our government, judic...