Amateur video posted on YouTube over the weekend seems to suggest that unmanned surveillance drones might be flying over Chicago’s skies for the NATO summit this weekend. The video shows what appears to be an MQ-1 Predator flying over north suburban Elgin. Read the full post at Chicagoist by clicking here.

Thousands marched in the Chicago loop and hundreds of thousands around the world for May Day. A recap of last week’s May Day rallies and actions in Chicago. Read the full post at Chicagoist.

An incredible, firsthand account of the Occupation at the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic in Chicago, where patients, doctors, activists and occupiers have been fighting to keep mental health care available to everyone who needs it. Read the full post by clicking here (via Occupied Stories).

For the second time, workers at a window factory in Chicago staged an occupation to fight for their jobs. Thanks to their sit in, they won a chance to fight for their future. Read all about it at Chicagoist (link).

Solidarity ties together the dispossessed and pours strength into the souls of the struggling…

No one but a few want it, so why is it going to become legislation?

Part of an my account of Occupy Chicago’s attempt to camp at the horse statue in Congress Park on Saturday evening. Click here to read via Chicagoist.

Some pictures from the attempt to occupy Congress Park on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Click here to see (via Chicagoist)

I spent a day with some of the people occupying the space in front of the Federal Reserve in Chicago on Saturday. They were all smart, insightful and all around nice people. Click here to read the full report of how it went down.

Here’s a great rundown of exactly the kinds of things you can and should do to help the Occupy movement, whether you’re in NYC, Chicago, or any other city across the globe. Read the whole thing by clicking here.

Before the Tea Party wrings its hands over folks loosely throwing around the word “terrorist,” it might do well to remember how many other Americans have been referred to by the right as such. Read the full story here.

Partial term governor, one time political candidate and media hack Sarah Palin made a pilgrimage to Dixon, Illinois – boyhood home of GOP demagogue Ronald Regan. Read all about it when you click here.