The Chicago Tribune reports that the Chicago Women’s March today had reached 300,000 participants, exceeding last year’s estimated turnout of 250,000:
Sandra Whitmore attended her first protest in 1968. Then 30, she joined others in San Francisco to publicly burn their bras, she said.
The experience was so intoxicating, Whitmore said, that she's attended dozens of protests in the five decades since. On Saturday, the mother of four, now 80, attended Chicago's Women's March. So did all of her kids, joining the thousands expected to attend the event. Her sign read "My arms are getting tired from hold'n this sign since the 1960s."
"I've been doing this for so many years," said the Northbrook resident. "And though women have seen a lot of progress, it has started to erode. But people are waking up."
Here’s New York City:
Washington, D.C.:
Cheyenne, Wyoming:
Omaha, Nebraska:
Missoula, Montana:
Cincinnati, Ohio:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Chattanooga, Tennessee: