After months of protest, Amazon set to open on Chicago's West Side to mixed reception. 'A job beats no job'
In January, residents of Chicago's 37th Ward and a coalition of community groups gathered in the cold to protest outside a planned Amazon warehouse in the city's West Humboldt Park neighborhood. Demonstrators held signs demanding equality in hiring. They expressed frustration about being excluded from meetings on the project, and called for transparency from the local alderman and the ...