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Planned Labor Day protest in Chicago aims to shut down expressway, jam up traffic in and out of O'Hare

CHICAGO - He organized the shutdown of Lake Shore Drive that snarled traffic earlier this month and now the Rev. Gregory Livingston wants to do the same thing on the Kennedy Expressway, jamming up travel to and from O'Hare International Airport.

Livingston, of New Hope Baptist Church in West Humboldt Park, staged a news conference Wednesday outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office in City Hall to announce his plans for an anti-violence march on the Kennedy Expressway - the main thoroughfare to O'Hare - about 11 a.m. or noon on Labor Day.

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