{"id":152069,"date":"2025-08-17T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152069\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:53:09","slug":"texas-house-democrats-who-fled-to-illinois-join-millennium-park-rally-downtown-chicago-to-protest-republican-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/152069\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois join Millennium Park rally downtown Chicago to protest Republican redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; The Texas Democrats who <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/texas-house-democrats-plan-flee-state-try-stop-proposed-congressional-maps-appear-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker\/17420791\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fled to Illinois earlier this month<\/a> to protest congressional redistricting in their state took part in a protest rally Saturday downtown Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People in Chicago and cities across the country are rallying for the Texas lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A crowd of hundreds of people gathered in Millennium Park on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the Texas House Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">SEE ALSO |<\/strong> <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/trumps-redistricting-push-democrats-find-aggressive-identity-progressives-are-board\/17556379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Trump&#8217;s redistricting push, Democrats find an aggressive identity and progressives are on board<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Texas representatives have been camped out in suburban Chicago for nearly two weeks, trying to block Republican plans to redraw the state&#8217;s U.S. House maps before next year&#8217;s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">RELATED |<\/strong> <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/texas-republicans-plan-another-redistricting-session-california-democrats-preparing-proposal-counter\/17547089\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Republicans start another redistricting session; California Democrats will counter<\/a><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; The Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois earlier this month to protest congressional redistricting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[89132,10509,960,5386,1818,1571,76449,5523,39675],"class_list":{"0":"post-152069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-89132","9":"tag-abc-news","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-texas-democrats","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-texas-redistricting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115041848836055432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}