From Newstips.org reports

Watch some of theUnion Park rally on May 1, 2007

Watch some of themarch from Union Park to Grant Park.

By Megan McManama and Tina Sfondeles

See and hear additional audio, video of the rally and march.

People of different religions and nationalities along with students, organizers and advocacy groups marched May 1 in Chicago to show their support for "common sense" immigration reform.

By Silvana Tabares-Flores

More than 150,000 people of all generations rallied in Chicago May 1 for immigration reform, demanding legal status for more than 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Chicago's march was by far the largest one in the nation but significantly smaller than last year’s march, which drew about 500,000 people.

Downtown traffic was at a standstill as thousands of people carried signs and banners that read ‘Stop the raids,” “Legalization now” and “Immigration reform now.” Some people used noisemakers, while others played horns, sirens and matracas, a traditional Mexican noisemaker.

Columbia College Chicago students worked with teacher Teresa Puente to produce these short interviews from the immigration march, May 1, 2007, in Chicago :

1 - Melissa Woo Korean-American with YAWP! - Young Asians with Power

2 - Nada Touma - with CAAAELII, the Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois

3 - Francisco Cobio, a resident of Waukegan originally from Mexico

4 - Adalberto Madrigal - IMAN Inner-City Muslim Action Network