CHICAGO — A Labor Day Rally devoted to promoting workers' rights and opposing the policies of President Donald Trump's administration is underway early Monday afternoon in the West Loop.

Chicago has played a large role in the country's labor movement and in the formation of Labor Day, and the city has been a main target of the Trump administration's focus on immigration and crime.

Those factors made for an interesting Labor Day Rally at the Haymarket Memorial, with Mayor Brandon Johnson among those in attendance. The mayor has been in national headlines in recent weeks, addressing the White House's threats to send federal troops into Chicago.

Monday's rally focused on workers' rights and what protestors say is an attack on unions in favor of billionaires, with hundreds of demonstrators

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