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>> WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS.
THESE PICTURES JUST INTO THE
NEWS ROOM FROM CHOPPER 2-HD.
HUNDREDS OF PROTESTERS SPILL
INTO THE STREETS CAUSING
TROUBLE AT A BUSY INTERSECTION
IN THE SOUTH LOOP.
JUST MINUTES AGO, WE CAPTURED
POLICE CARTING SOME OF THE
PROTESTERS AWAY WITH THEIR
HANDS BEHIND THEIR BACKS.
>> I'M ROB JOHNSON.
>> AND I'M KATE SULLIVAN.
THEY PICKED RUSH HOUR TO MAKE
THEIR POINT.
WE ARE LIVE WITH MOBILE 2 ON
THE SCENE AT CONGRESS AND
CLARK.
JIM.
>> Reporter: BOB AND KATE --
ROB AND KATE, THE PROTEST IS
JUST ABOUT OVER.
THE PROTESTERS SAID THEY WOULD
BLOCK THE INTERSECTION OF
CONGRESS AND CLARK, AN
IMPORTANT INTERSECTION FOR
TRAFFIC.
TRAFFIC CONTINUED TO MOVE IN
BOTH DIRECTIONS.
THEY THREATENED TO BLOCK THE
INTERSECTION BECAUSE, IN THEIR
WORDS, WE'RE SHUTTING DOWN
CONGRESS PARKWAY BECAUSE
CONGRESS IS SHUTTING OUR PATH
TO CITIZENSHIP.
THEY CHANTED ON ALL FOUR
CORNERS OF CONGRESS AND CLARK.
THEN ABOUT 100 PROTESTERS SAT
IN THE STREET.
THE POLICE DIPLOMATICALLY TOLD
THEM THEY WOULD BE ARRESTED AND
THEY KEPT THEIR WORD.
ONE BY ONE, THE PROTESTERS WERE
TAKEN AWAY.
BUT IT WAS ALL PEACEFUL.
SPIRITED BUT PEACEFUL.
THE PROTEST IS JUST ABOUT OVER.
A FEW PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE STREET RIGHT NOW.
BUT THIS PART OF CLARK STREET
HAS REOPENED.
AND ALL OF CONGRESS PARKWAY
CONTINUED TO BE OPEN AS PEOPLE
MOVED EAST AND WEST TO THE
CITY'S WEST SIDE AND THE