Pro-life and anti-abortion activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion.
Activists gathered behind the Art Institute along Columbus Drive Thursday afternoon to board buses bound for Washington, D.C., as part of a trip the local branch of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism had organized to protest President-elect Donald Trump's Friday inauguration on Capitol Hill. Chris Cholewa, a DuPage County resident and two-time Obama voter who said he'd campaigned for Bernie Sanders during the presidential primary, was among those who'd claimed a seat.